[Scummvm-devel] 256KB reduced binary size vs. speed

[Eugene Sandulenko]

Max Horn writes:
 > > For modern systems I think that speed decrease will be just few
 > > percents, which doesn't really matters since there is no heavy
 > > computations.
 > 
 > Uhm? No heavy computation? The hq?x filters are *very* heavy in 
 > computation.
Let me clarify myself. There is no heavy computations except
scalers. Generally only smush playing on latter games eats resources.

 > >  But right now code size is kind of bloated and even more
 > > to follow, that's why I vote for size.
 > >
 > Just to put this into relation, we are talking 3.1 MB vs 2.9 MB :-), 
 > i.e. less than 8%; OTOH we are also talking a speed difference of 
 > probably less than 5%.
So you see the benefit. We gain 3%.


Eugene