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Scott Shaver

Okay so here is what I ended up doing to speed up the loading of huge maps in my editor:

' this is a speed optimization, istead of reading each int one at a time
' we read them in in blocks, much faster but we have to deal with the endian stuff
' ourselves
Local temp:Int[] = New Int[mcw]
Local bptr:Byte Ptr = Varptr temp[0]
' cell tile index data
For Local y:Int=0 Until mch
	FlushMem
	mfs.ReadBytes( bptr,mcw*4 )
	For Local x:Int=0 Until mcw
?BigEndian
		Local t ' only do the byte swapping if on a big endian system, file is little endian
		t=bptr[(x*4)];bptr[(x*4)]=bptr[(x*4)+3];bptr[(x*4)+3]=t
		t=bptr[1];bptr[(x*4)+1]=bptr[(x*4)+2];bptr[(x*4)+2]=t
?
		newmap.layers[l].tiles[x,y]=temp[x]
	Next
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