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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

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3883 points kuroguro | 2 comments | 28 Feb 21 19:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.752s | source
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powerfulclick ◴[28 Feb 21 20:51 UTC] No.26296951[source]▶
This is really cool - how did you develop the background knowledge to solve this? I'm trying to learn more about low-level stuff and I would have no idea how to approach solving a problem like this
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spuz ◴[28 Feb 21 20:57 UTC] No.26296987[source]▶
I'd recommend searching HN for threads about learning reverse engineering. Here are a few that I've found:

Reverse Engineering Course: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22061842

Reverse Engineering For Beginners: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21640669

Introduction to reverse engineering for beginners: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16104958

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the_only_law ◴[28 Feb 21 21:34 UTC] No.26297283[source]▶
I love it but I don’t have the focus or patience to ever do anything more than basic analysis.

A lot of the reverse engineers I know seemingly have deep platform knowledge and can do things like cite Win32 docs from memory.

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saagarjha ◴[28 Feb 21 23:13 UTC] No.26298012[source]▶
The number one way to get the patience to do this is to have impatience for software that is slow.
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1. meibo ◴[01 Mar 21 00:37 UTC] No.26298526[source]▶
And with most RE software(especially the mentioned inaccessible interactive disassembling tool) you'll get that by default, waiting for a 70mb binary to analyze isn't fun :)
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2. saagarjha ◴[01 Mar 21 08:24 UTC] No.26300663[source]▶
Fortunately, software engineers can be bad at making time value judgments ;)