Talk:Petit Computer 3/@comment-15296152-20140705040614/@comment-9531161-20140709223109

They may have already done this in the original PTC. Think about how long it takes for PTC to load programs, but how quickly it can load piles of resources. For instance, I can load 10 different GRPs in less than a second (over 400KB), but it takes a whole 10 seconds to load a 300KB program. I think it's safe to assume that programs are stored as plain text (with a little extra) in PTC due to the size listed for programs, so maybe the ridiculous load times for programs can be explained by the fact that they're converting everything into a shorter representation when they're moving the program into memory.