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		plopz 63 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The gold standard of optimization: A look under th... One of the main issues with Kerbal Space Program is instability caused by floating point numbers. I know Starcraft 2 was built upon integers.

Gigachad 63 days ago [–]

Floating point issues are less a problem of performance here but one of precision. Particularly being a space game, the coordinates can be massive resulting in the precision deteriorating enough to cause issues.

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