eli5 what is the difference between a decompilation and a disassembly when it comes to viseo games?
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Imagine you were told to take apart a Lego castle. There’s two ways to do it. You can separate the pieces into smaller, more understandable parts: the gate, the walls, the towers, etc. It’s not too complicated to rebuild the castle and understand why each part is designed that way. This is decompiling code. It’s more human-focused and understandable.
The other way of taking the castle apart is to separate every single Lego, so all you have are the bricks. It’s a lot harder to put back together because you don’t know exactly which tiles are which or how they fit together. But everything is there, so if you put in enough time and effort, you could theoretically understand it. This is disassembling the code, turning it back into (almost) the simplest pieces available. It might not be helpful for the vast majority of people – but you have way more control over what you can build.
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