File Size with Tabs vs Spaces

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The analysis is flawed in that it doesn't consider the ways files are stored. The first example on the source article shows 1403 (tabs) and 1703 (spaces), but both would take up the same storage space on modern drives (4096 block size), for instance.

Of course, space indentation takes more space, but the question of "how much" is more complicated than comparing byte counts.

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