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I'm sitting here stumped as to how to make it a fairly efficient process. I'm at a friend's place, and he doesn't code, let alone have FB, so I can't really just code something up... I'm heading back home in a few hours, I'll have to try something then.
Statistics: Posted by The Awakened — Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:48 pm
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Slow, but really good if you really spent a lot of time and you needed to compress a lot of files. Like, if you had 1 gigabyte of stuff you needed to put onto a CD, sure, it would take a LONG time, but it would really compress it if you did it for each file (EG have a master un-compression file, and have that take account for each file).Nathan1993's little thing on compression was interesting. I never even thought of doing something like that... although it seems like it could be pretty damn slow for large files.
If you think that the I/O is contributing to it being slow, than consider adding a "LEN =" statement to the OPEN statements of the input and output files. Without the "LEN =", the buffer size will default to 256 bytes, which for a large file means many, many accesses to the disk. Increase the buffer size with "LEN =" and you will appreciate much faster file I/O.
With a bigger buffer, you will transfer larger blocks of data on every access to the disk, with fewer time-consuming, physical accesses to the hard disk or CD.
(Thanks to Ethan Winer)
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Nathan1993's little thing on compression was interesting. I never even thought of doing something like that... although it seems like it could be pretty damn slow for large files.
Slow, but really good if you really spent a lot of time and you needed to compress a lot of files. Like, if you had 1 gigabyte of stuff you needed to put onto a CD, sure, it would take a LONG time, but it would really compress it if you did it for each file (EG have a master un-compression file, and have that take account for each file).Statistics: Posted by {Nathan} — Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:32 pm
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Statistics: Posted by The Awakened — Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:39 pm
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Statistics: Posted by MystikShadows — Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:54 pm
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Not sure what to say about mennonite's email, only that I agree with Pete, for the most part, with the whole RTFM thing. I think it's completely reasonable for someone to get that response. All it takes is a quick Google search and a poke through the tutorials around. Now, there's some things where you go to search for them and it's tough to know where to start as far as a search string. Anyway...
Matt2Jones, I really enjoyed your article on creating more professional games. Interestingly enough, Mysterious Song was the first game I thought of when you started talking about title screens.
Both comics were good.
Nathan1993's little thing on compression was interesting. I never even thought of doing something like that... although it seems like it could be pretty damn slow for large files.
Let me know how my article was, if it caught your interest at all.
Statistics: Posted by The Awakened — Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:16 pm
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??? PETE? My name isnt on the contributer's list... why? WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME!
Statistics: Posted by Rattrapmax6 — Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:39 pm
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edit: thx man! hehe... now, back to... uhh... i need to get a life.
Statistics: Posted by {Nathan} — Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:25 am
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Wish you all the best.
Statistics: Posted by lurah- — Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:02 am
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We were going to name her Rhiannon but Rhianna sounded better with her middle name, which is Aracelis. Statistics: Posted by Nodtveidt — Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:36 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Kyle — Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:04 pm
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That certain letter/article combination was something that mostlikely makes some "noice" on whole community soon.
Good Pete quality in all ways
Statistics: Posted by lurah- — Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:39 pm
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