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How Optimizations made Mario 64 SLOWER

Kaze Emanuar

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Game developmentSystems programmingPerformance and optimizationRetro games and consolesGame programming

Kaze Emanuar explains how certain compiler optimizations and cache behaviors on the Nintendo 64 hardware actually degraded Super Mario 64's performance.

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