My unfounded suspicion is that optimizations might have been turned off to avoid...

gmueckl on July 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Super Mario 64 has been decompiled

My unfounded suspicion is that optimizations might have been turned off to avoid bugs in the toolchain. The developers would have had to deal with very early versions of these tools before the comsole was launched and in development itself.