v1.4.0

Added

• Parallel processing: mutations and their costs are computed on several
  processes simultaneously. This results in approx. 2-3x faster packing of
  files. Parameter -q controls the processing queue length; this is the
  maximum number of solutions being explored simultaneously. Defaults to 12, but
  you can try increasing it if you have a lot of cores. -P controls the number
  of parallel processes in a pool, defaults to number of cores and can be
  usually left unchanged. -q1 -P1 is identical to the old behavior.
• Reading PNG-carts and writing fake PNG-like carts. The advantage of PNG-like
  carts is that all data chunks can be compressed too, so can be useful for 512b
  • 64k intros. The disadvantage is that additional 16-bytes of headers are
    needed. Choose this output format with -fpng. The file ending is still .tic,
    but TIC-80 sees the magic bytes and detects them as PNGs.
• Shuffling data chunks during packing. This works only with PNG-like carts, as
  only they support compressing the entire cart.
• Loading .lua carts with multiple banks.
• Command line parameter -s0 means iterate forever. Intermediate results are
  saved, as always.

Changed

• The output format is defined with -f e.g. -flua, -fpng, -func, or
  -ftic. The -u and -l options have been DEPRECATED. If an output file is
  defined, pakettic tries guessing the desired output format based on the file
  extension of the output file.
• Size optimized the code generated by --data-to-code: use :gmatch instead
  of string.gmatch

Fixed

• When packing multiple files, the initial minification of subsequent files
  continued using variable names from where the previous files had stopped.
• Parse error: note was parsed as not e