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Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug

its all nice on rice posted:

Has anyone every actually paid for winrar?

Yes, the OP has, that's why they are mad about zip formats. Sunk cost fallacy etc

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Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug

gently caress SNEEP posted:

compressing and uncompressing files takes up CPU processing, it ain't free! sure, in some cases that slowdown would be negligible but you'd need a fast hard drive and CPU for that, but it will still always affect performance. Some games store all their assets compressed and uncompress them when they read them in to memory for the first time on start up.

Sometimes it's faster to read a small file and decompress it in memory than reading a large uncompressed file. It depends on how fast the storage medium can deliver data.

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