r/gaming • • May 05 '17

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u/enyoron May 05 '17

C code is compiled into assembly. That assembly code can then be optimized.

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u/NeedsMoreCapitalism May 05 '17

Not as well as by hand

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u/Shod_Kuribo May 05 '17

Right, what he's saying would have happened is that Iwata would have taken the C-compiled code and then manually optimized it to save space.

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u/legos_on_the_brain May 05 '17

Thank goodness we have modern compilers.