why are custom properties so fast?

[Richard Gaskin]

xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
> One issue that seems evident now is that if we store styled text in 
> a field and need to save that to a custom prop, there's 1) loss of
> data possible (the rev-html converter - or rather stripper), 2) the
> overhead of saving extra style tags...

True.  If you need to store styled text it's hard to beat the 
performance and storage efficiencies of the native binary style runs 
(i.e. field objects).

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