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		gnarbarian on Feb 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutabl... I would love to see a bunch of hard hitting engineers focus on optimizing DF with multithreading and GPGPU stuff. It would probably require a full rewrite. Having some experience with AI and pyopencl physics simulations I have no doubt that DF could be many orders of magnitude faster and capable of sooooo much more. That's really where my angst stems from.

eru on Feb 26, 2013 [–]

> [...] focus on optimizing DF with multithreading and GPGPU stuff.

You should probably start with algorithmic improvements.

gnarbarian on Feb 26, 2013 | [–]

It could go either way IMO, GPGPUs are super great for naively simulating a bunch of different blocks in parallel.

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