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A comment on OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog. Parent comment

Re:OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a cust... by corysama on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:34PM (#29987721)
OP also posted https://blog.jakspeedruns.com/opengoal-project-update-septem... a while back. It has a section on "How is this possible?"
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Re:OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a cust... by DylanBohlender on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:41PM (#29987802)
Whoa, that is crazy!

TL;DR for folks is that they left a lot of debug information in the build. The C code was compiled with no optimizations (and included debugging symbols), and GOAL uses a string-based table for global functions/variables/types, so they're starting with all those for free. Plus they don't think the GOAL compiler did too much tricky-to-undo optimization either.

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