file.Decompress

[aStonedPenguin]

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A function to decompress a file.

local success = file.Decompress( inFile, outFile )

This current situation where you have to read the file, pass it to util.Decompress and write it again is extremely slow and prone to maxing the games memory when working with larger files.

[thegrb93]

It will take just as long for this function to execute unless you are also requesting it to be asynchronous. Either way, it's kind of a niche request.

[aStonedPenguin]

It will take just as long for this function to execute unless you are also requesting it to be asynchronous. Either way, it's kind of a niche request.

Loading the compressed and then the decompressed file into memory is definitely slower than doing it properly in C++. But that's not the main issue, memory usage is.

Besides everything needed to add this is already there.

[WilliamVenner]

Would be cool if we could get file.WriteCompressed for the same reason. In that case we should probably name the function file.ReadCompressed instead of file.Decompress. The naming of file.Decompress actually implies that it will modify the file.

[Velkon]

This would be very useful please add