Many characters in a typical file are superfluous, such as newlines, spaces, and others. These can be eliminated without loss of data. A properly written parser couldn't tell the difference between a "regular" and "compressed" file.
As proof of concept, I took a 22MB file and reduced it to 17MB by running these shell commands:
Delete the space between an equals sign and brackets
Delete the space between brackets
Note, this might not be all the ways to compress a file. I haven't tested it, but it should be possible to delete spaces if they occur after any equals.
The compressed saver should have the same interface as the current saver, even though this means ignoring ValueWrite enums passed to the write functions.
Many characters in a typical file are superfluous, such as newlines, spaces, and others. These can be eliminated without loss of data. A properly written parser couldn't tell the difference between a "regular" and "compressed" file.
As proof of concept, I took a 22MB file and reduced it to 17MB by running these shell commands:
Explanation of commands:
Note, this might not be all the ways to compress a file. I haven't tested it, but it should be possible to delete spaces if they occur after any equals.
The compressed saver should have the same interface as the current saver, even though this means ignoring
ValueWriteenums passed to the write functions.