On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Dave Keck wrote:

Out of curiosity, why would you use the less efficient and larger XML format ?

Human-readability I would imagine.

'defaults read' or 'plutil' will do for that. The files are stored in binary because it's more efficient. This was a performance optimization added in 10.5, and I was told that it really did make a measurable difference.

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