Branchless Doom

Re:Branchless Doom by wasx on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:43PM (#16220139)

Finally I can play my favourite game without worrying about how Intel has fucked me!

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Re:Branchless Doom by craftyguy on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @12:44AM (#16220607)

You could run it on a mid-90's CPU without speculative branching and very likely see better performance.

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Re:Branchless Doom by NinjaKitten on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @01:44AM (#16220847)

486 or Pentium 90, what this game was made for.

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Re:Branchless Doom by craftyguy on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:37AM (#16221046)

Yea, either one of those would run the game better than this project/slideshow.

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Re:Branchless Doom by majewsky on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:28AM (#16221907)

Or, alternatively, an x86 emulator on a more trustworthy architecture such as RISC-V, or an x86 implementation on an FPGA.

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