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		out_of_protocol on Dec 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) Counterpoint: tiled maps, which are basically loads and loads of images, can be stored on disk as - Direcory structure - Zip file - Tar file - Sqlite db Out of these, sqlite is the most compact, by far (also the fastest)

fatboy on Dec 25, 2018 [–]

We just transitioned our tiled images from using a directory structure to SQLite.

Having a single file per very large image (for mobile) makes transferring them to the phone over USB around ten times as fast. I wish I’d done it years ago.

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