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Re:xz: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects by TillE on Sunday March 31, 2024 @11:43AM (#39885264)
My favorite know-nothing gamer meme these days is "bad optimization". What they mean is that the performance is worse than what they would expect (?) on a given hardware configuration and game settings.

They haven't poked around with RenderDoc, they don't have the debug symbols to profile the CPU code, they have zero idea what kind of work the software needs to do, they simply know the lazy devs have failed to "optimize" their game.

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Re:xz: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects by account42 on Monday April 08, 2024 @11:03AM (#39970491)
You say this as if any game is actually as optimized as it could be which if you know anything about game development is an absurd assertion. Games are throwaway software programmed under strict deadlines. "Good enough" is the natural result of that. And yes, I have traced games' GPU and library usage due to bugs and performance issues. It's never a question if performance could be introduced but always just a question of how much effort/time it would take.
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