Binary or JSON for better perfomance.

warmanw · 24 de Jan de 2014

Could you please give me an advise about output formats. Just want to be sure what output to use for memory optimizations Binary or JSON.

warmanw · 24 de Jan de 2014

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
at com.esotericsoftware.spine.SkeletonBinary.readAnimation(ProGuard:253)

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: array size too large
at com.badlogic.gdx.utils.DataInput.readString(ProGuard:65)
at com.esotericsoftware.spine.SkeletonBinary.readSkeletonData(ProGuard:148)

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
at com.badlogic.gdx.utils.JsonReader.parse(ProGuard:49)
at com.badlogic.gdx.utils.JsonReader.parse(ProGuard:77)
at com.esotericsoftware.spine.SkeletonJson.readSkeletonData(ProGuard:93)

Here are most exceptions we get

Nate · 25 de Jan de 2014

I guess these exceptions are from the wild?

Binary of course, though it has the drawback that any changes in the Spine format mean you need to export all your skeletons from Spine again. If you freeze both the Spine version and spine-libgdx version this won't be a problem. Exporting again isn't terribly hard anyway. Anyway, binary will use less memory at load time, though if the device doesn't have the memory to hold all the data you may crash anyway. Nothing to do about that really.