How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster

Re:How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard lo... by RyanShook on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:17PM (#34329069)

It seems like the slight speed advantage was in uncompressing the files beforehand on the HDD essentially skipping a step that had to be performed on every boot from NAND.

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Re:How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard lo... by masklinn on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:41PM (#34329425)

Seems unlikely, file decompression tends to be quite fast (faster than even relatively fast IO if they're using lz4, but even more expensive compression methods would be faster than an HDD, to say nothing about apparently slow NAND)

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