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> Unless, of course, you're a AAA game, in which case you're fine tuning at the individual instruction and cache line levels for your most inner loops.

I think this is the most important part:

Those micro-optimizations have exactly one place: the most inner loops. Nowhere else! In the larger scale, better algorithms and code readability provide more performance than micro-optimizations ever could.



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