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Why are Plists stored as binary? (rawsyntax.com)
3 points by binarysoul on May 11, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


The binary format is faster and more compact.

Use `plutil` to convert to and from ASCII.


Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that utility




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