Need for RLE compression

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maksimov
maksimov ✭
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In my game, players sometimes send a pretty large bytes array to each other. Is it useful to RLE-compressed them out? Or will it be redundant due to the fact that the Photon has some kind of its compression mechanism?

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  • JohnTube
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    Hi @maksimov,

    I'm quoting my colleague here.

    Photon does not itself compress byte arrays.

    If it is useful depends on how much of a compression rate he can achieve and on how expensive the compression is CPU-wise: can this be done in realtime within a single frame on a mobile device without noticeable a framerate drop and is the result worth the CPU-load?

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