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coderatlarge
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one use-case is if you need to be able to stream the data.
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streetfighter64
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One use-case of what? Whether a format is "streamable" is entirely orthogonal to whether it is text or binary. Streamability depends on other things such as if it has a header or checksum at the end, et cetera.
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