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Running sstrip on an ELF binary is called ELF "golfing"? TIL…
by eqvinox 6mo ago
Running sstrip on an ELF binary is called ELF "golfing"? TIL…
- Retr0id 6mo agoIt is, although real ELF golfers consider that a little naive.
- repelsteeltje 6mo agoSorry for posting a n00b question, but could you share etymology on this term golfing?
- Retr0id 6mo agoIn golf, lower scores are better.
- seanhunter 6mo agoWhich, if you think about it, means the objective of golf is to be the person who plays the least golf.
- mbreese 6mo agoIt’s manipulating the binary to make it as small as possible. In golf, the lowest score wins. So, in this context, the smallest binary that still works wins.
- jerf 6mo agohttps://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?replies=1;node_id=437032;displaytype=print https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?replies=1;node_id=437032;... As befits a history of perl, it is full of random quotes and rambling discourses about history, but it has a lot of info in it.
- eqvinox 6mo agoIt does feel a little simplistic to get a special name. But lesser things have gotten fancier names...
- angry_octet 6mo agoI would only call it code golf if you actually reduced the amount of code.