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Simple Optimization Trick (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Since it wasn't mentioned yet: https://openrct2.io/

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Epic Pinball was another game that I recall was written in assembly. When your old 286 struggled to run games at a decent framerate, Epic Pinball would run in a smooth 75fps or whatever you set your CRT monitor to.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you seen the insane complexity of modern CPUs? Ain't no one hand coding that like a 6502 in 1985.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Even if one did, say using x86, it would still just be interpreted by the CPU into the CPU's native opcodes, as the legacy instruction sets are interpreted/translated.