alt Hacker NewsBecause with lossless compression you can save a lot of storage space without losing any quality. You are thinking about lossy compression.
Because with lossless compression you can save a lot of storage space without losing any quality. You are thinking about lossy compression.
I think you misunderstood his question.
Given two files, a compressed file which must be uncompressed to play, and an uncompressed one which does not require extra processing - why would the game ever bother uncompressing te compressed file when the same data is already available uncompressed?
There's no true use case for that that I can see.