Comment by inigyou
3 hours ago
1.3, not beta 1.3. Chunk data was traditionally the biggest part of Minecraft's memory use until they added a bunch more garbage.
3 hours ago
1.3, not beta 1.3. Chunk data was traditionally the biggest part of Minecraft's memory use until they added a bunch more garbage.
Interesting they switched after a couple years!
> Chunk data was traditionally the biggest part of Minecraft's memory use until they added a bunch more garbage.
But that's only really because it is extremely light on assets that are typically large in other games.
I'm a bit indifferent about this. Obviously they made a lot of decisions that aren't good for performance but it's a tradeoff. Notch was most productive working in Java so he could pump out updates quicker, and it helped with modding even though builds were obfuscated. NBT helped maintain backwards compatibility of worlds and probably helped with modding too. If they had done things differently then Minecraft may not have been the huge success that it is.