[ODE] ODE GUI Editor #2...

[Jon Watte]

> Back in the days of 16 MHz 80286 machines with 20 MB hard drives there were
> good reasons to use binary file formats, but they are all invalid now.

Take your favorite current game. Sit there, waiting at the load screen. Would you want to double the load times? I've found parsing XML -> binary is much slower than 2x the time of just loading, but parsing isn't all that's happening during load.

Cheers,

					/ h+