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Asked: 2026-05-21T20:33:00+00:00

A game Im working on has several XML files it uses to manage sprite

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A game I”m working on has several XML files it uses to manage sprite animations. Currently when I create an instance of a sprite I load it up into an XDocument once and keep it in a cache so that if I need to load it again I can just grab what is arlready in memory.

I do this very often in-game as I create animated sprites and such, going through its definitions like so:

var definitions = doc.Document.Descendants(name);
foreach (var animationDefinition in definitions)

So my question is, is this acceptable on a mobile phone? Say iPhone 3GS/iPhone 4/Windows Phone 7/Android? I use MonoTouch in ANdroid and iPhone while WP7 has its own .Net running.

The reason I ask is currently I don’t load that many animated sprites up but as I do more and more I’m worried it will start hurting performance. I figure it might be best to change my design ideas now than wait to suffer at a later date.

Thanks for any help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would simply test what’s faster (reading it again an again using a SAXParser or storing it in Memory using DOM).

    Maybe it also makes sense to save the read data from your XML-File in something like an Array/Vector/Class so you don’t need to parse the XML File over and over again.

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