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

Pawel Kolodziejski pablo at omega.xtr.net.pl
Fri Mar 26 21:43:04 CET 2004


> 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.
Smush doesn't eat resources, only sdl backend with about 5-6 blits.

>  > >  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
>
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