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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

(nee.lv)
3883 points kuroguro | 1 comments | 28 Feb 21 19:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.253s | source
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tyingq ◴[28 Feb 21 20:23 UTC] No.26296701[source]▶
"They’re parsing JSON. A whopping 10 megabytes worth of JSON with some 63k item entries."

Ahh. Modern software rocks.

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bombcar ◴[28 Feb 21 20:29 UTC] No.26296764[source]▶
At least parse it into SQLite. Once.
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tyingq ◴[28 Feb 21 21:17 UTC] No.26297149[source]▶
I think just using a length encoded serialization format would have made this work reasonably fast.
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1. hobofan ◴[28 Feb 21 21:27 UTC] No.26297224[source]▶
Or just any properly implemented JSON parser. That's a laughable small amount of JSON, which should easily be parsed in milliseconds.