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Still... this isn't the reason games are slow.

• adamrezich 4y ago
  I'm not sure why you would say that—it's certainly a reason why some (not AAA) games are slow.
  • int_19h 4y ago
    It should be noted that there were AAA games written in this fashion, and they were not slow. All method dispatch was virtual in UnrealScript, for example.
    • Arelius 4y ago
      Well, for starters, many AAA games in Unreal had to have many core functions/classes rewritten from UnrealScript to C++ for performance reasons, where often not every call is virtual. Secondly, UnrealScript is not really a great example, since on-top of Unreal being notoriously on the slower-end of game architectures, and even Epic decided to drop UnrealScript. And importantly, UnrealScript was designed in the 90's, when memory latencies were far less of problem.
      • int_19h 4y ago
        Of course C++ is faster, although that has more to do with being compiled rather than bytecode-interpreted. But even so, we played those games on hardware that's very slow by modern standards, and it was fast enough for competitive PvP, so I wouldn't describe it as "slow" in absolute terms.