RE: XML was RE: [GD-General] RE: A portable preferences library

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

> >None of those steps change without the level changing, so 
> why waste all that
> >time. 16-20 seconds is a hell of a long for a level to load 
> when you could
> >do 16(guestimate) of those seconds offline.
> >  
> >
> This would be possible but it would severely compromize the object oriented design
> of CS. Performance is more than adequate IMHO so why  compromize proper 
> design in order to get more?

I second Gareth here. 16-20 seconds is NOT adequate level load time on
a reasonably modern PC. You shouldn't ever do load-time anything that 
can do level-export-time. This doesn't contradict with nice OO design, and 
if you feel like "duplicating" code if you shift parsing and preprocessing to the
tools, maybe you should use the more politically correct word "reuse".