We want to use positional arguments in translatable strings
that have more than one argument so that translators can change
the order of them, but the question is: Should we also use
positional arguments in translatable strings with only one
argument? I think it makes most sense that way, partially
so that translators don't even have to be aware of the
non-positional syntax and partially because "translatable
strings use positional arguments" is an easier rule for us
to remember than "transitional strings which have more than
one argument use positional arguments". But let me know if
you have a different opinion.
Once nice benefit of fmt is that we can use positional arguments
in localizable strings. This a feature which has been
requested for the Korean translation of strings like
"Errors were found in %zu blocks in the %s partition."
and which will no doubt be useful for other languages too.
By calling ZSTD_CCtx_setPledgedSrcSize, we can let zstd know
how large a chunk is going to be before which start compressing
it, which lets zstd avoid allocating more memory than needed
for various internal buffers. This greatly reduces the RAM usage
when using a high compression level with a small chunk size,
and doesn't have much of an effect in other circumstances.
A side effect of calling ZSTD_CCtx_setPledgedSrcSize is that
zstd by default will write the uncompressed size into the
compressed data stream as metadata. In order to save space,
and since the decompressed size can be figured out through
the structure of the RVZ format anyway, we disable writing
the uncompressed size by setting ZSTD_c_contentSizeFlag to 0.
It's possible (but rare) for a WIA or RVZ file to support
this for some partitions but not all, and for the game and
the blob code to disagree on how large a partition is.
The heuristic was not allocating enough space for Metroid: Other M,
at least when using the default settings. (This didn't break the
file, it just caused some headers to be placed at the end of the
file instead of at the start and wasted a few hundred kilobytes.)
PURGE isn't especially useful, while requiring some annoying
special handling in the file format. If you want no compression,
use NONE. If you want fast compression, use Zstandard.
Gets rid of the need to seek to the end of the file
when opening a file.
The downside of this is that we waste a little space,
since we can't know in advance exactly how much
space the compressed parts of the headers will need.
This is useful for the way Dolphin scrubs Wii discs.
The encrypted data is what gets zeroed out, but this
zeroed out data then gets decrypted before being stored,
and the resulting data does not compress well.
However, each block of decrypted scrubbed data is
identical given the same encryption key, and there's
nothing stopping us from making multiple group entries
point to the same offset in the file, so we only have
to store one copy of this data per partition.
For reference, wit zeroes out the decrypted data,
but Dolphin's WIA writer can't do this because it currently
doesn't know which parts of the disc are scrubbed.
This is also useful for things such as storing Datel discs
full of 0x55 blocks (repesenting unreadable blocks)
without compression enabled.
JosJuice