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

[Jorrit T. <Jor...@uz...>]

Ivan-Assen Ivanov wrote:

> 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".
>
>  
>
There is also another issue why I don't do this. It takes a lot of time 
to make
this optimized loader (although possible). I think there are a lot more 
important
things to do. Optimzing speed at runtime for example. We have only so much
free time :-)

Greetings,