On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:15:05PM -0500, Jeff Dubrule wrote:
> Hmm... Do we need an entirely-binary format here? What about:
>
[...]
> Presumeably, the registers and other items will take up a fairly
> insignificant amount of space, compared to the heap, so there's no
> real loss in making it readable.
It means that the freeze/thaw code needs to work harder to parse the file,
and I didn't feel like coding it <G>. More importantly, it means that the
freeze/thaw code has to know more the absolutely neccessary to do its job:
with my format, the only things that need to be changed is the version
number if cpu_t changes without changing size, or another structure needs to
be saved.
I would like to compress the memory dump somehow; I havn't gotten that far
yet. Even simple RLE would be a huge win over the way I'm doing it now, but
first I want to get the thing working.
-=- James Mastros
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