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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files,
 and other "non-code" data
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:18:49 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 25 May 2010, John wrote:

> Perhaps a section in the manual with a header such as "Handling non-text
> files", or "Revision control for media, XML, and other non line-oriented
> files" would clear this all up. You could almost cull the body of it from this
> thread and other similar threads.

That is indeed a good idea.

Do you volunteer?


Nicolas