Re: [hatari-devel] Beats of Rage (new Falcon game)

[Anders Eriksson <ae@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, George Nakos wrote:

> Don't oversimplify things. Compression is (IMHO) a design decision not
> to  be taken lightly. For example, what speed is the depacking routine
> running at? Does it depack in place or does it need an extra buffer to
> store  the  unpacked  data and then copy it in place? What impact does
> that  have on speed? Is that an acceptable wait for the player? And so
> on and so forth.

Fluent loading speed/restart speed is the most important.
HDD space requirement is a no-issue these days.

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