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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

having no reliance on assembly code

That's not true. The original Doom has assembly. They replaced it for the Linux source release. But by that time PC hardware was much faster ( remember back in the 90's performance doubled every 2 years) so it wasn't needed.

"Planar.asm"

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_source_code_files

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