
Originally Posted by
Macro_FTW
If it were true, quite a bit of space would be conserved.
23 skills * Integer [4-byte] = 92 bytes
Array of strings [up to 200] * char[0..12] (string arrays from 0 to 12 length. Assuming they use ASCII, each char takes up 1 byte) = anywhere from 0 to 2.4Kb
150+ quest Shorts [1-byte] = 150 bytes //Not booleans; a short can be any number from 0-255 to show that you are on step X of the quest
Array of Integers [4-byte] up to 488(?) [Bank slots] = 1,952 bytes
Array of Integers [4-byte] up to 488(?) [# of items in banks lot X] = 1,952 bytes
Remaining run energy, current levels, and the 9999999 things I haven't thought of not factored in, you get: 6.5Kb
If they have as they advertised a while ago, 10,000,000+ active players and 150,000,000 accounts overall, (Unsure. I recall the "join" button saying "Join the 150,000,000 accounts already made" at one point) and you get 975000000Kb of space.
975000Mb
975Gb
Nearly a Tb, and each player probably uses more memory than I mentioned with the various booleans, integers, doubles, etc. that I left out.
Jagex is, under my calculations, using nearly a Tb of space. They could save around 900Gb by deleting unused accounts. (under 10% of accounts created are active today)
Would make retrieving info a few ms faster, but wouldn't do much. :P