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Hi all,

I work with Tony the author of the article and answer (or find someone to answer) any league questions you might have. Tony will be most likely be online later in the day as he works remotely with us from Australia.

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One interesting thought for me is, do you have areas of code where you suspect a good optimization exists but are unable to find it or justify the presumably exhaustive time to uncover it?

Could the order of condition-statements-machine-code (as in the case handling code)e.g. in the particle code be made rearranging according to in-game-heat-counting?

You could, but I doubt it would have much of an effect on performance. Modern CPUs are ridiculously good at looking ahead and executing paths pre-emptively, meaning that branching is far less of an issue. On the older consoles, branching was a big issue, so that would have helped there.

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