Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3160] Developers Must Play

[James Cameron <quozl@us.netrek.org>]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:16:50AM -0700, Tom Holub wrote:
> I think a per-frame fork() is insane.  What do you plan to do with it,
> write a gif for every frame?  In a 90 minute game that's 54000 files, not
> to mention 54000 fork()'s, and assuming 10k files, 540 megabytes of disk
> space.  

Karthik just picked up three 40Gb disks at $USD180 each, and that seems
like quite a reasonable price.  That's about $USD2.43 worth of disk for
each 90 minute game.  I think we can afford that.

But sure, if there was a reliable alternative format, we could do it.

Perhaps the client would run as a per-frame CGI?

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