Free and Open Source Software

21501 readers

76 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Gaywallet@beehaw.org

alyaza@beehaw.org

Do you think my games should have optional calls to assembly functions for certain CPUs and GPUs if possible. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 week ago by danielhanrahantng@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hello my name is Daniel Hanrahan. Do you think my games should have optional calls to assembly functions for certain CPUs and GPUs in order to reach maximum possible performance and use parts/functions of the CPUs and GPUs that are not standard, but it's use for them would for tasks that is not perfect for the standard parts of CPUs and GPUs if possible, for example: instead of using the standard parts/functions of the z80 for the randomization you use the refresh register instead. Let me be clear my games have good performance.

Link to my games: https://daniel-hanrahan-tools-and-games.github.io/

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] FlareHeart@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would probably evaluate it based on what sort of gains could be expected and for how many people? If it's only going to be a couple of percentage points for a couple of people, then I would say don't bother. But if it could make a substantial difference, or impact a larger portion of people, then that starts to sway the decision.

[–] danielhanrahantng@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

The reason I ask is because I know linux does something like that to make sure it is at maximum performance.