TPT being Limited by its file size.
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For What ever reason, I have noticed that the Additions to TPT are limited in some ways due to an Increase in TPT.EXE 's size.This is a Powder sim, with Air pressure and velocity, Heat, and Newtonian Gravity smashed down to the size of not quite a megabyte. I would download this if it were larger.Why let the Executable size limit possibilities?
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I don't think the file size is limiting anything, the reason faster gravity calculations weren't added was because it didn't work on older computers, but it has been fixed by now I think.
Also, the size of the powder toy was already reduced by a lot somehow. Version 7 of my mod is about 3x larger than version 8 is (1.3mb), so they have a lot of room to add more stuff before the powder toy gets up to the size it used to be.
Edit: I also wouldn't mind if the file size was larger, but 25mb might be a little too large. I don't know what would ever make it that large anyway. -
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Features are mostly limited by the small number of people contributing to development, and the fact that more features generally means the game runs slower. There's no point in adding a feature that makes the game unusably slow.
@The-Fall (View Post)
I used to think that was the reason for not using FFT gravity, but https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Post=185623Simon:
@jacksonmj (View Post)
I'm not too bothered about the executable size, it's the crash on previous versions of Windows (pre-Vista) that is preventing it from being enabled. -
It was one of the reasons I wasn't too sure about adding FFT. Python was a major issue, it would have added 10MB to the executable size, and I have to pay for bandwidth, every time we push a new update, hundreds of thousands of people download the update, a 10MB update would not be a good idea.
