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« Reply #3315 on: July 19, 2012, 08:34:23 AM » |
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Those SSD things sound like a good idea about now...
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« Reply #3316 on: July 20, 2012, 01:20:46 AM » |
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Finally isolated the cause of a flash game at work suddenly going from 500kb to 4mb in size.
I went through slowly deleting stuff. Generate size report you say? It told me I have 3.5mb on frame one and no other information. So I spent most of yesterday eliminating classes and assets one by one. Compile, delete, compile, delete...
The cause? One textfield. One fucking textfield.
Fucking Adobe.
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edit: Found that adding any font added at least 2-3mb. Solution - the "compress movie" checkbox in Publish options.
For some reason it was unchecked. I really did not know that fonts zipped up so well.
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« Reply #3317 on: July 20, 2012, 02:31:30 AM » |
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Wait a sec... 2-3 MB for a font?! Which font was that? Possibly you need to start picking smaller fonts. If you don't need Arabic, Mandarin and 2000 different symbols you can easily get a font into 200K or even less (uncompressed, that is).
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« Reply #3318 on: July 20, 2012, 02:51:40 AM » |
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Facebook integration - I have to support everything.
Most fonts I imported added 2mb.
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« Reply #3319 on: July 20, 2012, 03:19:53 AM » |
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Facebook integration - I have to support everything.  So yes, that's why your fonts are insanely huge. I'm surprised compressing them helps all that much. |
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« Reply #3320 on: July 20, 2012, 07:26:39 AM » |
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Those SSD things sound like a good idea about now...
Best upgrade you can buy for your computer. I got one not too long ago, and almost everything I do feels twice as fast, no exaggeration. Can't recommend them highly enough. don't they wear out much faster, though? |
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« Reply #3321 on: July 20, 2012, 07:53:53 AM » |
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don't they wear out much faster, though?
Don't think so. From what I understand, although the type of storage they use can only be written to a finite number of times, that number is so ridiculously high in modern drives that you'll never come close to it in a lifetime of use. There are no moving parts, so you really have a lot fewer points of failure than with a standard mechanical drive. ...can't really speak from experience, of course, since I've only had the drive for a month of so. |
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« Reply #3322 on: July 20, 2012, 08:08:52 AM » |
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don't they wear out much faster, though?
I'm building a new rig and doing some research on this, and from what I've read at least I personally am going to replace the drives anyways well before they wear out on me. Their speed decreases when the drive is filled, but formatting them, which I'm going to do anyways every now and then, should resume their performance to practically original levels (TRIM instruction). There are also differences in this between models and manufacturers, so I'm going to do some more research before selecting which exact model to purchase. This is all from reading some articles which might be outdated by now (I think some were dated around 2009). |
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« Reply #3323 on: July 20, 2012, 08:10:12 AM » |
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I hate it when you take a few days off programming and have no idea what the fuck you were doing. I've sat here for two hours without writing a single line trying to figure out where I was at last week.
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« Reply #3324 on: July 20, 2012, 08:17:41 AM » |
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I hate it when you take a few days off programming and have no idea what the fuck you were doing. I've sat here for two hours without writing a single line trying to figure out where I was at last week.
Similarly, I hate when you're in the zone on a Friday night, programming away, and just when you're in the middle of something you need to just drop it and leave since the alarms in the office are going to turn on any minute and an angry security guard will come to get you if you don't leave right this second. Then you return to your devices on Monday morning and take half of the day just recalling where were you and getting back to the zone, or maybe feel much less inspired and never get back there. |
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« Reply #3325 on: July 20, 2012, 08:22:06 AM » |
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Those SSD things sound like a good idea about now...
Best upgrade you can buy for your computer. I got one not too long ago, and almost everything I do feels twice as fast, no exaggeration. Can't recommend them highly enough. don't they wear out much faster, though? I think I read on coding horror.com that theirs were failing consistently within 4 months |
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« Reply #3326 on: July 20, 2012, 08:22:16 AM » |
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I'm getting into the zone right now. Two beers, two red bulls, two dexamphetamines, and now I've finally figured out what I was doing.
I can't even begin to start programming without having a few beers. But I'm not an alcoholic!
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« Reply #3327 on: July 20, 2012, 08:55:41 AM » |
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The SSDs wear out much much faster than normal disk drives. Even the best (and the most expensive) ones have only 30k writes possible before the cells die, with the affordable ones having about 10-15k writes. Also, SSDs have one big disadvantage compared to disk drives. When they die, it's instant. One moment it's ok, the second one it's broken. With normal disk drives, you know beforehand that they are starting to fail and you can make a backup. With SSDs, you can't.
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« Reply #3328 on: July 20, 2012, 09:19:35 AM » |
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That's what people said a while ago (because of some software kinks that made the drive do stuff it wasn't supposed to do) but it seems to be a non-issue now and is just one of those things that people say.
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