[uae] Re: Will there be a upcoming E-UAE release?

euae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> There is code in src/zfile.c to handle compressed files (.zip, .Z, .gz)
> and it tackles just about any kind of files used by UAE *except*
> HDFs. Patching the code to make it support these shouldn't be
> that much work, I guess? The performance on write operations
> could be a problem, though. Perhaps that is the reason why it
> hasn't been implemented.

UAE has to unzip the file before it can be used, which means that it's
relatively pointless for hardfiles.  Uncompressing 512MB during startup
is slow and could easily fail with a disk full error.  Since we never
try to rewrite the compressed files, the disk image is read-only.
Hence, it doesn't make sense to add support for compressed hardfiles.


Bernd

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