Re: RFC: Bytecode file format

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:18 PM 9/14/2001 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:03:51AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > Re: IFF.  Being an old Amiga user, I find it appealing.  Is the lack
> > > of a dictionary likely to be a significant problem?
> >
> > Please elaborate.
>
>IFF stores a linear series of chunks.  Each chunk has a header containing
>the chunk id, and the size of the chunk.  In order to get a listing of
>all chunks in an IFF file, you need to do a linear scan of the chunks.

Which is the big downside of IFF. (I'd forgotten about that problem) Means 
we can't use it, at least not straight. I suppose we could have a mandatory 
dictionary chunk first, if we go with IFF.

                                        Dan

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