Re: [glob2-devel] Compressed maps - idea

[moa3333]

Hein-Pieter van Braam wrote:

> hey all!
>
> I was just looking over the roadmap, and I was thinking a bit about the 
> compressed map thing. I looked into zlib a bit, and I think it would be 
> rather easy to just gzip the maps, and read them in through zlib, that would 
> require a minimum of change to the glob2 code, and dramatically reduce the 
> size of the maps.
>
> might this be an option? I think I can get it done rather quickly.
>
> - hp
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Yes, it will help debugging autosaved games quiqly, and posts on 
savanah.  I think the maps are compressed a LOT something like 1/10 or 
more rather than 1/2 - 1/3 normal compression for binary files..