[Video] - How I optimised the Forbidden Solitaire FMV code by Jake Birkett

[ricardo_sdl]

The basic used is BlitzMax, but interesting anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4ggmQXRbFI

[Skipper]

As interesting as this video is, I was amazed at how he optimised by reshuffling existing code and did not first perform any analysis of whether the algorithms used could be improved upon.
Basically, he did what a good compiler would be able to do, but nothing more.

[ricardo_sdl]

And the thing is BlitzMax compiler generates c or c++ code which is then fed to the compiler and you would expect it make the smart optmizations. One thing I think made a big difference was that he improved the cache usage for the code.

[Mijikai]

Here is the code if anyone is interested:
https://www.syntaxbomb.com/index.php?msg=347064333

[Shardik]

As interesting as this video is, I was amazed at how he optimised by reshuffling existing code and did not first perform any analysis of whether the algorithms used could be improved upon.
Basically, he did what a good compiler would be able to do, but nothing more.

Here you can read Jake Birkett's (aka GreyAlien's) answer.

[Skipper]

Nice that he picked up that message from our forum