[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [RFC][Patch] Reduce bandwith by using deltas

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > Maybe not, I am not sure. But at least you do not require freeciv coders
> > to know Python... and a programming language you don't know is never
> > pretty.
> >
> > > The disadvantage I see is that you can't look at the output.
> >
> > gcc -E | more, no problem.
>
> Have you looked at the output?

Many times. If you are careful with where you put comments, keep includes
to an absolute minimum and avoid system headers (which is possible here),
then the output will be nice and clean.

> > Apart from bools, do we really waste so many bits for the other types?

> If I calculated correctly this are 47bits = 6byte by 26
> bytes+6bits=27bytes total. This is 22% reduction.

And x > 0% reduction in speed. I suppose bit shifts are cheap, but I would
like to see some measurements here. So how about implementing without bit
compression first, and then try that afterwards when we can measure the
difference?

  - Per