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IOCCC Winners Announced

Posted by Hemos on from the begin-the-headache dept.

Arachn1d writes "The IOCCC has finally announced the winners of the 2004 contest.
With winners this year including a mini-OS and a ray-tracer, the submissions should be interesting indeed - if you can make sense of them. According to the page, the actual code for the winners should be up mid-october."

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  1. Re:Obfuscation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How-to-obfuscate in Python

    http://p-nand-q.com/python/lambdaizing_quicksort.h tml

  2. Re:More tricks by Bastian · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Recursive calls to main(), if handled with interesting tricks like vectored execution and such, can really spice up a program.

    If you use the trick of storing all of your data in one huge 'array', try to overlap anything you can get away with overlapping. For example, if you have a constant whose most significant byte is the same as the least significant byte in a string, there's not sense in storing that byte twice.

    While not allowed in IOCCC itself, try mixing your C with a language that's even more incomprehensible than C. I had good luck with writing a C program that sent PostScript code to a printer and having all the real work be done in the PostScript code.