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The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon (larstofus.com)
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Citation needed! Processors have had multiplication in silicon since forever, and compiler writers aren't stupid. You can even check on https://godbolt.org/ with old versions. I bet you can't find a compiler from 1999 that won't optimize an unsigned integer multiply to a bit shift without turning off optimisations.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    C existed for almost a decade, before they added this specific optimization to compilers in late 1970

    I was not referencing particularly RCT and was just trying to explain, what optimizations mean on that level, be it automatic or manual.

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