[DiscordArchive] oh interesting, what would that offer that eg wowtools doesn’t?
[DiscordArchive] oh interesting, what would that offer that eg wowtools doesn’t?
Archived author: badopsec • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:10:57.241000+00:00
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oh interesting, what would that offer that eg wowtools doesn’t?
Archived author: badopsec • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:11:29.281000+00:00
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as in,extract the individual files into blp, wmo, etc files and serve them statically?
Archived author: Marlamin • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:12:06.678000+00:00
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yeah thats what wow.tools does now
Archived author: badopsec • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:12:47.143000+00:00
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ahh i didn’t realize that. i figured there’d be a performance win from serving directly from the casc archives, since there’s less FS cache thrashing
Archived author: badopsec • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:13:01.562000+00:00
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but maybe that’s more trouble than it’s worth
Archived author: Marlamin • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:13:08.850000+00:00
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there is but you'd need some sort of intermediate that knows where each file is etc
Archived author: Marlamin • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:13:25.806000+00:00
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wow.tools used to have all of that in RAM for many many builds, but those services are dead now so its just 1 static build
Archived author: badopsec • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:13:35.163000+00:00
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oh, i thought CASC index files kept track of which file data id was where?
Archived author: Marlamin • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:13:53.197000+00:00
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there's 2 more files in between
Archived author: badopsec • Posted: 2024-03-12T23:15:13.912000+00:00
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interesting, i guess i need to read more about the format