Doom 3 in WebAssembly

Re:Doom 3 in WebAssembly by Gab_CV on Friday January 04, 2019 @08:20AM (#18823759)

Actually, indexedDB is used to cache/store the whole .pk4, but using small chunks of data (50MB or so). This works well in practice.

The best would be that all browsers support the Chrome Filesystem API, but that's not for now

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Re:Doom 3 in WebAssembly by Klathmon on Friday January 04, 2019 @08:44AM (#18823950)

Thats cool! Any reason you do it in multiple distinct chunks vs mutating a single chunk?

I'm assuming the time required to store and request a massive blob gets excessive at some point, but were there any other reasons?

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Re:Doom 3 in WebAssembly by Gab_CV on Friday January 04, 2019 @03:17PM (#18827255)

It is because IndexedDB maximum row size is not that big, and depends on the browsers

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Re:Doom 3 in WebAssembly by Klathmon on Friday January 04, 2019 @03:38PM (#18827390)

Wow I had no idea! I'll have to look into that, thanks!

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