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He mentioned optimizing it for x64 assembly. The original ran on old 32-bit processors. There were a lot fewer registers available back then and SSE hadn't ev
by megaman22 9y ago
He mentioned optimizing it for x64 assembly. The original ran on old 32-bit processors. There were a lot fewer registers available back then and SSE hadn't even been released. Compilers weren't as smart either twenty years ago.
- AstralStorm 9y agoThat easily explains why they got only 4x improvement... better algorithms would give like 100x but would no longer be authentic.