[TIB] Re: some questions
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[TIB] Re: some questions
Heh. Well, compression is a bit of a misnomer here, as the data itself
isn't ever really compressed, but the space that the data takes up in a
string is smaller than if it were in a matrix. You pretty much have the
concept correct too, just storing the data row by row into a string. The
only problem with this is as the string gets longer, the time it takes
to retrieve values from the end of the string also increases. I don't
think that this is a problem on 89's though, I think there was a command
that searches the string end to beginning.
-C.J. Wallace
Charles wrote:
> what method for compression do you use ?
> do you do something like take out one row and then store it in a string then
> append the rest of the matix row by row into it?
> or what?
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>>Well, if you're just storing the maps, I usually compress stored maps
>>into strings, as it saves space. But with this compression, you lose
>>speed, and so for the active map its best to have it stored in a matrix
>>while it is being used. As for code, well I program for the 83[-], so I
>>couldn't help you there. But it couldn't hurt to try your own hand at
>>hacking something together either.
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>>-C.J. Wallace
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