RE: XML was RE: [GD-General] RE: A portable preferences library b ut has nothing to do with them anymore

[Gareth L. <GL...@cl...>]

We are going in circles here, his data is zlib compressed, so the harddisk
costs are equivalent to a binary file (based on what Jorrit said).

And for the record, there are always many right ways. But there are also
wrong ways. 

Oh, and please Jorrit, I never meant to offend. I feel (based on offline
emails) that I might have offended. I'm sorry if that happened, as I think I
have posed only technical issues and nothing personal.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Terdiman [mailto:pie...@no...]
> Sent: 16 December 2003 18:32
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: XML was RE: [GD-General] RE: A portable 
> preferences library
> but has nothing to do with them anymore
> 
> 
> > Hell, why not just pre-generate the kd-tree and store that 
> into the xml ?
> 
> Because the CPU is way faster than the HD, as already stated. 
> So, I wouldn't
> be surprised if generating the kd-tree was actually faster 
> than loading a
> huge text file (say XML). I certainly compute my AABB-trees 
> on-the-fly, for
> example.
> 
> (Now I'm not saying that's the Right Way because, as you all 
> should know,
> there's no such thing as a Right Way in those recurrent 
> A-vs-B threads. When
> there's an actual Right Way, everybody agrees and people 
> don't waste their
> time discussing it).
> 
> Pierre
> 
> 
> 
> 
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