Daily : October 21, 2005

21 Oct

Unbelievable Optimization X

by Marco Mastropaolo

This is something which happened some years ago. There was some-project I won’t name(*) (let’s just say it was a server emulator of some popular MMORPG), with their development forum. I found a post suggesting an optimization they were going to implement. Basically the file saving phase was something like this : if (someplayer->hp != [...]