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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And then there's good old Chris Sawyer, writing an entire (fairly complex) game completely in Assembly, because he wanted the (actually kind of computationally heavy) game to still work on potato hardware.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which one?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably roller coaster tycoon...

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah, right.

But this was at a time when compilers weren't better than you in optimizing.