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Re:The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard intervi... by simcop2387 on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:57PM (#50062095)
He made a few videos about it last year and the consensus was basically that none of them have a good enough understanding of the hardware to actually be useful for optimizing anything. They end up making a lot of assumptions about how the caching behavior and memory architecture works and kind of insist that it must work the way modern PCs do. And it led to a number of cache misses and RAM bus contention that basically didn't work as well as he can do by hand.
Re:The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard intervi... by bredren on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:44AM (#50067690)
Thanks for this.