File Sizes

[Jan Erik Moström]

Alfred Lang <alfred.lang at psy.unibe.ch> (2003-08-22 14:50) wrote:


> Still, I am undecided which outliner to wage on for my workhorse, 
> when MORE will be out some time in the future. One observation: why 
> is it the a MORE file, three levels deep with a little systematic 
> style use taking 47 KB with 5 or 6 lines added and a three sentences 
> in a note takes 280 KB in OO and 15.6 MB (Megabytes) in Notetaker? (I 
> have asked the question to the Notetaker support people a few months 
> ago and never got an answer so far.)

My *guess*: NoteTaker uses a database to store the information and in
order to make the usage so efficient as possible it allocates much more
diskspace than needed when creating the database. In this way it becomes
faster to add new items (no need to make the database bigger each time)
to the database and it will not probably not increase in size until you
have added several new items.

Another guess: OO uses a text representation of it data, while MORE uses
a binary format. This means that an integer only takes 4 bytes in a MORE
file but perhaps 10-20 bytes in OO since it is probably encoded
something similar to this:

<number value="56">


But I'm only guessing.

                                    jem
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