New file format [was: CPU hogging in the current master]

Henrik Brautaset Aronsen subsurface at henrik.synth.no
Thu Sep 26 23:07:24 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Benjamin <nystire at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is the compression going to be at the file level or at the dive level?
>
> This may be a heretic's question, but given the fact that the information
> will be compressed, is there any real advantage to dropping the XML
> formatting? After all, it seems the only change is for the saved data file
> itself, and in RAM there will be no real changes to how the data is stored.
>

My guess is that it will be zipped.  There's no reason to do it per dive.

Another thing regarding the timestamps on each sample.  I prefer "mm:ss"
instead of "mm'ss", since some editors and text viewers are trying to color
encode stuff in between quotes.

Henrik
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