alt Hacker NewsSeeing this [1], I thought it was something related to taking assembly instructions in the original code, emitting C statements that match the instruction, and then compiling that C code.
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bri3d • yesterday at 9:56 PM
Your idea is much more accurate; see my sibling comment. It's basically using C or C++ as an intermediate representation for machine code, rather than trying to recreate the game's higher-order logic/structure or source code.
Ah, you are right. I haven't looked at the details of the recomp efforts.