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How big is too big?
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Sep 27, 2003 @ 1:36amby mlepage
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Sep 27, 2003 @ 1:39amby sponge
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Sep 27, 2003 @ 1:46amby mlepage
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Sep 27, 2003 @ 3:01amby sponge
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Sep 27, 2003 @ 3:02amby warmi
Decompress it on-the-fly ?
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Sep 30, 2003 @ 10:31amby Applewood
I recently switched over to storing all my sprites as simple spans of paletted byte data. To call it RLE is over-indulging it, as it really is just a repeat count and then the bytes to copy, then a skip count. There are as many codes as needed for each line, and that's it.
It's pretty crap compression scheme, but it decompresses like lightening and I'm gonna spare a bit in the control byte to indicate a repeat count which will speed it up loads (a value of 0 on the repeat being then taken as a skip).
The net effect of this was to speed up transparent printing by loads as there are now no 'ifs' in the inner loop and it's pretty cache friendly. It also more than halved my data size.
Give it a whirl.....
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Sep 30, 2003 @ 6:25pmby mlepage
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Sep 30, 2003 @ 11:06pmby Guest
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Sep 30, 2003 @ 11:29pmby James S
OH! YOU'RE SO CLEVER AND WITTY! HAHA, BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PENISES NOW!!! DO YOU ALL GET IT?!@!?!!!!1111 IT'S A PENIS JOKE! PENIS!
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Sep 30, 2003 @ 11:33pmby chuck
penis is funny. i have one. it makes me laugh for hours.
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Oct 1, 2003 @ 1:01amby eminefes
"Boys have a penis. Girls have a vagina."
"My dad's a gynecologist and he looks at vaginas all day long."
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Oct 1, 2003 @ 1:53amby Alexander