• paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    For anyone interested in why, C was new and didn’t yet optimize to the same level that a clever and experienced human could optimize Assembly. IIRC, by the time he was developing Roller Coaster Tycoon, C compiler optimization was on par with human Assembly optimization, so it was the last notable game written entirely in Assembly for optimization purposes.

    I think this was the video I watched where I learned this: https://youtu.be/0JouTsMQsEA