alt Hacker NewsFor those who haven't heard, Kaze is the guy who optimized Mario 64's code, fixed some physics bugs, etc., claims roughly 6x speedup, so that he can make a mod / ROM-hack that runs smoother despite having better graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE
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emchammer • last Thursday at 6:10 PM
Just about a Fabrice Bellard level of competence there
immibis • last Thursday at 7:43 PM
And discovered you could disable cache writeback to have a region of fast RAM without bus contention, and ways to use the hidden 9th bit in each byte which is only usd by certain graphics framebuffer operations.
I don't think he uses either one in serious code, but if he did, good luck emulating it.
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Has he actually released it yet?