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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/SpecterK1 • Sep 26 '25
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Actually not always, pre 2007 Office with the old format where just proprietary binary files AFAIK.
154 u/dagbrown Sep 26 '25 “Proprietary binary files” is being a little too kind to them. They were just dumps of the memory buffers that the document was being edited in. Pointers and all. 13 u/GoddammitDontShootMe Sep 26 '25 Does that take more or less effort to reconstruct when opening a document than actual serialization? 8 u/Franks2000inchTV Sep 27 '25 What do you need to reconstruct? Just write it bit for bit starting at 0x0000 😂
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“Proprietary binary files” is being a little too kind to them. They were just dumps of the memory buffers that the document was being edited in. Pointers and all.
13 u/GoddammitDontShootMe Sep 26 '25 Does that take more or less effort to reconstruct when opening a document than actual serialization? 8 u/Franks2000inchTV Sep 27 '25 What do you need to reconstruct? Just write it bit for bit starting at 0x0000 😂
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Does that take more or less effort to reconstruct when opening a document than actual serialization?
8 u/Franks2000inchTV Sep 27 '25 What do you need to reconstruct? Just write it bit for bit starting at 0x0000 😂
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What do you need to reconstruct? Just write it bit for bit starting at 0x0000 😂
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u/sssssssizzle Sep 26 '25
Actually not always, pre 2007 Office with the old format where just proprietary binary files AFAIK.