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- URL: https://x.com/valigo/status/2013053903206482068
- Author: Valentin Ignatev (@valigo)
- Posted: 2026-01-19 01:00:25
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1/ @valigo
Finally learned why Denuvo destroys performance.
It runs normal code through a fantasy stack-based VM that jits the code back together with a bunch of junk jumps on the fly, completely trashing CPU cache and undoing optimizations that developers worked hard on.
And this is apart from constant timing and fingerpringing, and a bunch of other evil stuff.
Truly a bane of gaming.
2/ @valigo
This amazing video from Nathan Baggs goes over a lot of what Denuvo is doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jyCBu0nUA
This kind of shit is why you need a super computer to run games that look no better than something from 2015
3/ @valigo
Imagine working your ass off, praying to a statue of Mike Acton in your bedroom, and then some twitchy manager on cocaine demands that you transpile 6 years of hard work through a [spiritually] Python interpreter.
Branches: 2026-01-19-KevGalaxybender-wow-python-is-fucking-slow-as-its-not-efficient, 2026-01-19-BigTemp7-mike-acton-is-e-celeb-tier, 2026-01-19-Smthingedgy-imagine-working-your-ass-off-praying-to-a-statue