[Alephmodular-devel] Serializing Terminals

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

I'm looking over serializing those items that need to be serialized.

Most of these things are weapon and player state which are completely  
based off internal structures. Hence writing them out unserialized  
now and working with serialization later is is a problem.

The other aspect of unserialized items is Terminal structure. Now the  
funny thing about Terminals is that they are read in from the  
original map file. They should be unpacked for internal use to be  
proper. (Being a mix of ints and chars, it managed to fit within  
PowerPC alignment issues, so never went through the unserialization  
process before.)

Now, save files still have a complete map file in them (The current  
level and all states). Should we save memory most of the time by  
unpacking the terminals, then repacking them during the save. Or Do  
we just use more memory by holding onto the original packed data and  
handing that back to the save system when it is asked for?

-Jeremy Parsons
http://alephmodular.sourceforge.net/