Why are Plists stored as binary?

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	Why are Plists stored as binary? (rawsyntax.com)
	3 points by binarysoul 4050 days ago

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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