Re: new rnote file format, zstd compression, serialization parallelism™, atomic file saving #1578
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The overall goal of this PR is to improve the handling of
.rnotesave files.tl;dr: faster loading, faster saving, smaller file sizes
Main selling points:
zstdinstead ofgzipThis PR is a re-write of #1177, with a couple of major changes:
(+)parallelism for serialization and compression(+)file version separate from the Rnote version(-)scrapped save preferences(-)scrapped alternative serialization methods (for compatibility reasons)Here's a diagram of the simplified process to get from
EngineSnapshotto a.rnotesave file.