After reading the article, though, I feel like I definitely need a superoptimiser, to see what could be improved :)

Note to website owner - it could be nice to have a permalink to the English version.

> The reason is that Starflight was written in Forth

I recently reverse-engineered another game from the 80's, and had a similar issue because it was written with Turbo Pascal.

The different tools didn't like quirks such as data stored inline between the instructions or every library function having a different calling convention.

Turns out the simplest way to handle this was to write my own decompiler, since Turbo Pascal 3 didn't do any optimisations.

Mostly silly posts about silly projects.

I'd recommend taking a well documented binary file format (Doom WAD file?), go over the documentation, and see that you manage to see the individual values in the hex editor.

Now, after you have a feel for how things might look in hex, look at your own file. Start by saving an empty project from your program and identifying the header, maybe it's compressed?

If it's not, change a tiny thing in the program and save again, compare the files to see what changed. Or alternatively change the file a tiny bit and load it.

Write a parser and add things as you learn more. If the file isn't intentionally obfuscated, it should probably be just a matter of persevering until you can parse the entire file.

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It's interesting that a bunch of the funded products have been funded by a single person.

Do you know if it's the producers themselves? Worried rich people?

It's already working, and slightly faster than the CPU version, but that's far from an acceptable result. The occupancy (which is a term I first learned this week) is currently at a disappointing 50%, so there's a clear target for optimisation.

Once I'm satisfied with how the code runs on my modest GPU at home, the plan is to use some online GPU renting service to make it go brrrrrrrrrr and see how many new elements I can find in the series.

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[1] https://github.com/ashdnazg/palindromes

I suspect everyone turns to Bubblesort since the inputs are small enough that it doesn't matter (evident by the fact that it should fit within microseconds).

This last fact might actually support the current model, as it grows linearly-ish in the size of the instruction, instead of being constant like hash.

It all boils down to getting your hands dirty, instead of passively consuming the products of others.

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Although it has cult status in Israel for some reason.