Re: [Rails-devel] Tiles.xml, TileSet.xml, and svg files

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

That would go to another extreme...  XML parsing is not *that* slow, and XML
is at least readable.
 
Erik.


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From: John A. Tamplin [mailto:ja...@ja...] 
Sent: Wednesday 13 January 2010 20:39
To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Tiles.xml, TileSet.xml, and svg files


On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Rick Westerman <wes...@pu...>
wrote:


Once again I hesitate to make suggestions when I am not going to
implement them and may not know what I am talking about ... however ...
during the compile into a jar could the global Tiles file be converted
into a Java-friendly format that is quick to read and parse?   That way
when the program actually runs it just picks up the pre-formatted data
and does not need to do XML parsing.

 
The fastest to load would be serialized Java objects, and you can load the
entire object graph at once.

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John A. Tamplin