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  • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Bold of you to assume the data in save files is packed binary and not something like JSON where { “x”: 13872, “y”: -17312, “z”: -20170 } requires 40 bytes of storage.

    • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Agreed. JSON solves:

      • the ‘versioning’ problem, where the data fields change after an update. That’s a nightmare on packed binary; need to write so much code to handle it.
      • makes debugging persistence issues easy for developers
      • very fast libraries exist for reading and writing it
      • actually compresses pretty damn well; you can pass the compress + write to a background thread once you’ve done the fast serialisation, anyway.

      For saving games, JSON+gzip is such a good combination that I’d probably never consider anything else.