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by usrbinbash 1573 days ago
I'll just quote my own answer from elsewhere in this thread:

    Even if such a device needs to be used, decoding ascii is a trivial lookup operation, 
    not remotely comparable to decoding some arcane binary format, or a convoluted XML-
    derived format such as they are used in WYSIWYG editor formats.