Dennis Schridde schreef: > Am Dienstag, 28. November 2006 13:22 schrieb Giel van Schijndel: > >> Gerard Krol schreef: >> >>> I vote for XML. It is really easy to get a good parser from somewhere, >>> and writing your own "language" always turns out to be far more work >>> than you expected. >>> >> I go with you there on the XML. We should however use the XML for >> storage only, thus meaning to load the data all at once at mapload and >> then keep it in memory. The SQL thingy I admit probably isn't and wasn't >> as good an idea as I initially thought it might be, although it probably >> is superior in speed to most other formats, that speed really isn't >> required/used during gameplay. >> >> As for using plain text with column-describers I vote no. This because >> it simply can't compete with XML on readability and foolproofness >> (leaving one value out in XML is no problem, doing that in plain text >> however causes a column to disappear effectively invalidating all >> following values). >> >> Furthermore I don't think loading speed should be a problem at all, so >> that should not play a role in selecting a format. (Since all data >> should be loaded into memory and kept there). >> > > Repeating Kamaze's idea as it might have been overlooked: > > > ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- > > Subject: Re: [Warzone-dev] Re: [Warzone-commits] r510 - > in /trunk:data/mp/stats/weapons.txt data/stats/weapons.txt > src/combat.csrc/order.c src/projectile.c src/stats.c src/statsdef.h > Date: Dienstag, 28. November 2006 09:52 > From: Fearthecute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Development list <warzone-dev@gna.org> > > Lua is a good choice. > Lua's compiler is really light weight and fast. (With some additional > patches faster) > The second point is, that we can redistribute the 'Raw-cripts' which > gets compiled > at the client. This Pre-Compiled scripts can be stored again and this > speeds up loading next time. > > However, a good caching concept should be speedup many things and the > amount of needed > space for that, isn't very important. (250 Gb HDD's etc...) This > additional ~20 MB for Pre-Cached things > in a binary format should everyone have :) > > And this wouldn't have any disadvantages, because we ship all the > raw-data too. > > Mhm, thats all for now, i thought over optimizing wz2100 a lot, but i'll > post my ideas later. > > So... > > Regards, Kamaze > I'm still staying with the point of view I had earlier stated on Lua: > What I find important to notice as well is that Lua is really a > programming/scripting language where-as XML is really a data-container > format. So storing data in XML seems more intuitive from that point of > view to me. Then when speed comes into play sqlite (or any other > database engine) is (to my opinion) by far out the best solution to work > on huge sets of data. I wouldn't mind seeing special purpose scripts written in Lua. Whenever your just storing data and describing object properties (which is just about all that is being done in data/stats/*.txt AFAIK) though I think XML is much more intuitive to use. It is also easier to create a data-editor for XML than it is for Lua.
-- Giel
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