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I always thought a deduplicating squashfs might be really cool for a read-only MAME system. Since most of the rom files seem to be variants of each other, inst
by m463 3y ago
I always thought a deduplicating squashfs might be really cool for a read-only MAME system. Since most of the rom files seem to be variants of each other, instead of having zip archives for each game, just put all the raw files in a directory and create a deduplicated squashfs-type filesystem with all of them.
- flomo 3y agoYeah, the original rationale is kinda perversely interesting: > my main use case and major motivation was that I had several hundred different versions of Perl okay... The question is if you want to trust a github filesystem or just spend the $dough to deal with it.
- smueller1234 3y agoIt's not an idle use case by the way. mhx wrote and maintains a library that provides important backwards compatibility for native (typically C based) extensions for Perl across decades of language releases.
- flomo 3y agoNo real doubt here this guy isn't 100% serious, so thanks for the explanation.