Eli5: What does it mean to optimize a video game?
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If you are going to make a cake but do not know everything you need then you may go to the store to get eggs then come back. Then you go for flour and back. Then you get sugar and come back etc.
This seems like an obviously slow and dumb way to do things but if you do not know the whole process then this is likely what you will do. Optimizing your video game is what you do after you finished the first cake and now you (the game) can change the process so you get all the ingredients at once to speed things up.
This is one example and may refer to how a game loads textures and how that can be improved.
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