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The PPK Tiny Programming Results

Posted by timothy on from the nano-nano dept.

mikemacd writes "As mentioned before the folks over at properkernel.com ran a programming challenge. The results are in. Hopefuly they will post code too."

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  1. Re:Hmmm by jo-do-cus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    correct me if i'm wrong, but it's quite easy to store this text, including the code to extract it to ASCII, in a lot less than 55 bytes...

  2. Re:Hmmm by sporty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Remember, it has to be done as an ELF binary. So you have to write a minimal header, then print a string :)

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  3. Re:Hmmm by Scarblac · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So you have to write a minimal header, then print a string.

    For some perspective: the normal ELF header is 52 bytes long, and the string including line feed is 55 bytes. The winner did it in 102, less than the sum of those. Wow.

    The next thought: why in heck didn't they print source (as if he didn't build that binary by hand), the binaries, or any info at all about how they did this!! It's stupid to look at the results only, so many questions, so few answers...

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