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by rasz 1865 days ago
How ATI’s drivers ‘optimize’ Quake III

https://techreport.com/review/3089/how-atis-drivers-optimize...

>Kyle Bennett at the HardOCP found that replacing every instance of “quake” with “quack” in the Quake III executable changed the Radeon 8500’s performance in the game substantially.

2 comments

(2001)
Good article. Makes me think of Volkswagen.