Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing 'correspondence chess with a shotgun' — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. We've seen the game running on anything from toasters to an Anker charger, and even a pregnancy test. Enterprising coders also get it running on the weirdest software possible, and just recently Artem Lytkin got it running in regular expressions.Developers in the audience are probably recoiling in horror, as that sentence is definitely cursed.
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Software Programming Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing 'correspondence chess with a shotgun' — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second News By Bruno Ferreira Published 28 July 2026 He definitely thought he could, but not whether he should. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Artem Lytkin) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Running the 1992 Doom on the most random piece of hardware around has become probably the most common unofficial programming…
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