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scarface_74 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (2005)

In 1985, any time I needed any level of performance on my 1Mhz Apple //e, I still had to use assembly or when BASIC didn’t expose the functionality I needed. Mostly around double hires graphics and sound.

jgrahamc 3 months ago [–]

Yep. That stuff was necessary then and still is today. Just look at DeepSeek doing low(er) level NVIDIA stuff and making the GPUs work hard.

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