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Like Property Lists the binary format is TLV encoded as well. Ion has a more compact binary representation for the same data and additional types and metadata. Also, IIRC, Plist types are limited to 32-bit lengths for all data types. The binary Ion representation has no such restriction (though in practice sizes are often limited by the language implementation).


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