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by 0xDEADFED5 911 days ago
haha, grepping for curse words for a laugh. multiples of:

    // DON'T FUCK WITH THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!
in main.cpp =)
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This will forever not be funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_b2B5tKBUM

I've been told it's a pretty good game as well, in spite of the ranting comments.

// We have optimized the heap sizes to reduce TLB misses. Change this and you could &%$# up performance (by as much as 1+ ms/frame)

Cache misses are one thing but here it's virtual memory and page tables!?

TLB = Translation Lookaside Buffer

That means someone did at some point and broke something quite badly.
every coder on earth at one point in time: let's optimize this without actually testing anything
and then spends months finding and undoing. And writes this comment. Can confirm.