I managed to remove a whole bunch of code in Nova 2 just by making an important variable 16-bit instead of 8-bit:
github.com/NovaSquirrel/NovaTh

I guess I feel inclined to try and save resources here even when I don't need to, and in this case... I'm saving RAM (which I can treat as basically infinite, I have 128KB!) at the expense of other things (CPU cycles, which I maybe want to conserve? Though the impact here is small...)

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Always interesting to think about how much of a multidimensional tradeoff the simple idea of 'optimization' actually is in practice

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@Patashu @NovaSquirrel this is why optimization is an entire field of mathematics
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