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by davidst 490 days ago
I wrote Qlife, a game of life "compiler" that generated X86 asm code, for one of Michael Abrash's optimization challenges in the early 90s.

Description: https://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch18/18-01.html

Code: https://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch18/18-03.html

Hashlife is far superior so while Qlife was interesting it wasn't the best implementation.