On 2015-01-11 10:37, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
Don Armstrong:
Every extra line is only an extra byte, after all.
Empty lines, however, require three. (Space period LF)
Somebody needed to point that out, of course. In compression they will
most certainly map to a single byte. Yes, this would not apply to
uncompressed lists on disk, but to transmission over the wire and mirror
space.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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