> Ah, a batch of dishonesty. Lovely.
>
> A fraction of a second slower is not significant for anything I'm doing. The space
> saving, especially if I'm storing stuff on USB so I can work on multiple machines, is
> more beneficial.
>
> You went from saying, “I've never needed to perform any operations on them that are
> noticeably slower,” which is just plain not true, to this. I already said, “You might
> think the small space saving justifies it, but many others don’t.”
>
How is this not true? I have a collection of 7z merged ROMs, I never have to touch them. MAME loads them, there's a fraction of a second longer loading time, if that (given the slow speed of the USB drive I'm using, I'm not even sure it's slower, it might be faster to load a smaller amount and decompress than it is to load the larger file)
I never have to touch those 7z files except when I overwrite them with a newer set.
I do 'real development' on MAME, or at least I did, until I just got fed up with all the nitpicking. These days I really don't have the motivation for large changesets if even things like comment placement are going to be nitpicked over.
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