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20 years ago, I wrote an intermediate compilation step for a big software project. It basically took the text strings and compressed them. The program only took
by tlb 17y ago
20 years ago, I wrote an intermediate compilation step for a big software project. It basically took the text strings and compressed them. The program only took a fraction of a second to run, so I added a sleep(1) to make it seem more impressive.
- blhack 17y agoI believe this is the inverse of a speedup loop. Although, if you removed it a few releases later for a drastic performance improvement, then I guess it is both! Good show!
- ars 17y agoSpeedup loop: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx And this one is even better: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/It_Must_Be_Broken.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/It_Must_Be_Broken.aspx
- jacquesm 17y agoHehe. Neat! Here is a variation on your theme. A customer I worked for as a freelancer suddenly got it into their heads to pay me by the byte of object code. I didn't comment at all, switched off link-step optimization. Next bill was by the hour again :)