Merge pull request #68 from WebAssembly/the-reason-for-the-binary-format

Further clarify that efficiency is the reason a binary format was cho…

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  * See the [AST Semantics](AstSemantics.md) for descriptions of individual AST nodes.
 
 ## Binary format
-* The primary purposes of this format are to reduce download size and accelerate decoding,
-  thus enabling even very large codebases to have quick startup times.
+* The reason we chose a binary format is efficiency: to reduce download size and accelerate
+  decoding, thus enabling even very large codebases to have quick startup times.
   * Towards that goal, the binary format will be natively decoded by the browser.
 * The binary format has an equivalent and isomorphic [text format](V1.md#text-format).
 * Do not try to compete with a generic compression algorithm by trying to suck out every last bit;