I recently wrote klondike in Rust after getting frustrated with bugs in my friend's LLM-written version. I highly recommend it as a recreational programming exercise, the first 4 hour blitz filling out the types was a blast. Later, trying to make as many invalid moves unexpressable by the given types as possible was a fun challenge. I ended up with a 232 byte struct for the board state with all values stack-allocated. The only way to make it considerably smaller would probably be to encode card permutations.
They’ve both had the exact same cost (both throughput and latency) on just about any ALU designed in the last several decades. There are no separate steps involved in the function of a full adder.
As an ardent follower of IOCCC since ages (where I learnt a trick or two during the initial C days around late 90s) this is seriously cool!
Many may not even appreciate the power of C! Becoz hardly it is getting taught and used nowadays. People who know knows it better. The laziness and wrappers have taken over the programming world and now AI is taking it to another level.
In near future, I guess people might even forget to code! Where to optimize and obfuscate then? Skilled ones would need to be preserved with awe!
Need to document them (not as a training material for AI for sure!), but somewhere else where it could be learnt by the one who needs it! Privately!
Having it on the internet is definitely prone to stealing / misusing it in the name of fair use policy.
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