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| (...) But remember that file size is only a consideration if it makes a difference to the total number of disk clusters it uses. If your disk is formatted to have 4Kb clusters each file takes 4Kb. One 4095byte file containing inlined code will use 1 (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) Right, but what I want to say is that if the filesize is to big the file needs a lot of time to render. When this is splitted into subfiles the renderer only needs to read smaller subfile. This saves rendertime. Bernd (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) That's been my view as well. In addition, is disk space usage really a factor? I mean, I have a small (3 gig) hard drive, and my whole LDraw file set takes up only a couple megs. For someone with a less archaic system than mine, the storage (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) Isn't this a matther of the installed operating system? I'm no PC expert, but i think that the clusters on a Windows 98 and a NT system are different, isn't it (FAT,FAT32,NTFS)? If you think that INLINING is a better solution, how can this be (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) There's still download time, which continues to be an issue for many people. Smaller files = faster download. Fight Software Bloat! (says he, writing on a Win2K system). Steve (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) Inlining is replacing a reference to a subfile with the code from that file. So if I had a part file, which had the line: 1 1 10 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 stud.dat and I "inlined" the stud.dat, my one line would be replaced with: 1 1 10 0 0 6 0 0 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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