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Jonathan Blow
On The Metal
The Reuse of the Frame Pointer
We didn't have business savvy and also it was a weird time so like that we ended up signing our game with these companies that were going to try to be like cable tv channels but for the emerging internet. you didn't have that many addressable registers back thenYeah I'm sitting there programming an assembly and like okay we're going to use the base pointer as like a general register because we don't there right? That's not really fun to debug right exactly! The classic reuse of the frame pointer oh my god that's a special place in health because we would reuse the frame pointer but you had to because you couldn't i am looking forward to the room where they'll let me give
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