If you're really concerned about space efficiency, compressed plain text will often outperform binary data formats and be much easier to read.

如果您真正关心空间的效率，那么压缩纯文本通常要比二进制数据格式要好，并且更容易读取。

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Rather than using the XML-based contract that is the basis for Web services, they used binary data formats that are both operating system specific and implementation specific.

这些尝试使用的是作业系统与实作专属的二进位资料格式，而不是XML为基础的合约。

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Binary storage means that the database file can be smaller, and there is no requirement to translate data between different formats as data moves in and out of the database.

二进制存储意味着数据库文件可以更小，且在数据移入和移出数据库时无需在不同格式之间转换数据。

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