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Comment by Retr0spectrum

9 years ago

Optimising for size is a relatively "obvious" goal, although it still takes a lot of skill to do it well. Optimising for speed is much less obvious however, the x86 architecture is incredibly complex when it comes to working out what code will be faster.

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