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Also, "Don't try to be clever to save a few bits.", like using the lower and upper 4 bits of a byte for different things (I'm looking at you, ONFI).
by ahoka 1y ago
Also, "Don't try to be clever to save a few bits.", like using the lower and upper 4 bits of a byte for different things (I'm looking at you, ONFI).
- vrighter 1y agoI've had to do just that to retrofit features I wasn't allowed to think about up front (we must get the product out the door.... we'll cross that bridge when we get to it)
- Dwedit 1y agoiNES file format is guilty of badly designed bit packing. Four flags were packed into the lower 4 bits, then Mapper Number was assigned to the high 4 bits. But then they needed more than 16 mappers. They used 4 high bits of the next byte to store the remaining 4 bits, and that was enough... until they needed over 256 mappers.