[Vm-dev] VM Maker: VMMaker-oscog-dtl.59.mcz

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Apr 18 11:00:52 UTC 2011


On 18.04.2011, at 12:43, Tobias Pape wrote:

> Am 2011-04-18 um 12:26 schrieb Levente Uzonyi:
> 
>> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Tobias Pape wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there any problem in "backconverting"
>>> an image when saving it in Cog ?
>> 
>> For most use cases, there's none. However Cog has to read the whole non-cog image into memory to swap the floats, which increases startup time.
> 
> Yes, but consider LittleEndian vs BigEndian
> -Images and -VMs.
> They have to do the same, all the time.

Not all the time, just when switching platforms. AFAIK we never have done any converting when saving, only when loading.

- Bert -




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