[Ohrrpgce] some thoughts on reload

[James Paige]

Having caught up on the IRC log and the on-list discussion from last 
night, I have a few thoughts:

* I like binsize.bin. I think the system is nice and simple, and it 
feels less hacky the more I work with it. The only downsize is the 
somewhat slow upgrade because of lump resizing

* If a goal is to decrease upgrade times, a format change will not 
accomplish that goal, even if the new format can be upgraded more 
efficently. Remember, the "upgrade" sub CAN'T go away, because of the 
vast library of old games that still float around, most of which will 
only ever be upgraded by players at load-time rather than by authors. 
The upgrade time for these games will be 
oldupgradetime+conversiontime+newupgradetime

* Flat binary files with binsize.bin are prefectly adequate for many 
lumps in the OHR. Please don't upgrade a format without a much better 
than "because I can" reason.

* All that being said, the plan for RELOAD does seem pretty cool, and 
there are already some lumps that could benefit from conversion. 
menus.bin+menuitem.bin are top candidates. Also the slicetree_0.txt 
format which I haven't even bothered to document on the wiki, since I 
was so confident it would be replaced by something else later.

* RELOAD could be awesome for the new save format.

* RELOAD could be awesome for the EditEdit lump definitions.

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James