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Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] Fw: 16K mud server competition !
On Monday, April 03, 2000, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
> Chris Gray wrote:
>>Wow, that's not much space! I took a quick look at ToyMUD, to see if there
>>was any chance of doing simple changes to shrink it down. However, it
>>is 80K of code and 26K in the data file. I doubt I could shrink it to
>>16K without losing some major feature or two. The first step would be
>>one of those code obfuscators that removes whitespace and makes all
>>identifiers one or two characters.
> Well spaces, tabs and comments don't count towards the limit.
> Yes, you could also get some mileage out of obfuscating keywords and
> system functions with macros. You could move all your locals into global
> space, drop all static references, and share them very carefully.
My own thought is to use Forth -- since it's a stack-based language,
there'd be far fewer variables to name. Plus, Forth syntax is
remarkably compact -- especially once you remove the whitespace.
(That whitespace removal seems like it would give an advantage to
people using some languages -- those where whitespace is significant.
Or, at least, a lot more significant than in C and the like.)
I doubt I'll give it a try, though -- with work, a wife, and a
toddler, one month probably isn't enough time for me to write anything
that actually works without giving up doing anything else in the
little free time I have.
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- Re: [MUD-Dev] Fw: 16K mud server competition !, (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Fw: 16K mud server competition !,
cg cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA, Tue 04 Apr 2000, 02:26 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Fw: 16K mud server competition !,
Jon A. Lambert jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com, Tue 04 Apr 2000, 05:29 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Fw: 16K mud server competition !,
Cynbe ru Taren cynbe#muq,org, Tue 04 Apr 2000, 05:30 GMT
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