What we learned about SSDs in 2015

Re:What we learned about SSDs in 2015 by pjc50 on Monday December 21, 2015 @05:53AM (#10770540)

Each video frame was a 50MB uncompressed TGA file, 30 times a second.

Ouch! Not even a PNG?

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Re:What we learned about SSDs in 2015 by burntwater on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @03:48PM (#10780306)

Uncompressed TGA is used for two reasons: Quality (this particular image was going on a screen three stories tall) and, as the other commenter mentioned, the time required to decompress images.

I'm not an expert on the exact architecture, but I'm guessing that with uncompressed TGA you just throw the bits at the GPU and they get displayed, while if you have to uncompress images that first gets handled by the CPU (?).

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Re:What we learned about SSDs in 2015 by tracker1 on Monday December 21, 2015 @12:59PM (#10772347)

I'd guess the time to do compression from TGA to PNG may be more than 1/30th of a second. Or at least reliably/consistently so.

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