[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch][RFC] Reduce superfluous tile_info packets

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With the two patches applied the biggest packets are still city_info
> and player_info. But only a small amount of them change. So I'm
> thinking of a bitfield at the start of the packet which tells which
> fields have changed and all fields which aren't changed are also not
> submitted. Another idea is to not use a bitfield but chunked
> approach. The serialized city_info can look like this:
>  int city_id;
>  char PRODUCTION_HAS_CHANGED;
>  int new_production;
>  char SHIELD_STOCK_HAS_CHANGED;
>  int new_shield_stock;
>  char END_OF_PACKET;
>

The bitfield approach is probably going to be far shorter. I prefer the chunked
approach though, because that is more human readable. 



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