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More unpredictable branches in a game than in a static program with dynamic file(e.g. encoding).

why?

Optimizing one area for about 1 000 lines of code compared to 50 000 is simpler, also the 1 000 lines you don't need to think about readability as much compared to more code.
Do you know what characters you need to check for doing a xml parser and how often these are found that changes the state?