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Re:9 Hole Code Golf Challenge by TylerE on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:15AM (#6983150)
Modern processors commonly have 8MB of L2 and 16MB or even more of L3 cache. Shaving 10kb off a binary is meaningless.
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Re:9 Hole Code Golf Challenge by aeykie on Monday December 30, 2013 @02:17AM (#6983506)
Modern hard drives have gigabytes of storage, so shaving 100 characters of a source code is pointless. I always thought code golf was for fun more than anything.
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Re:9 Hole Code Golf Challenge by userbinator on Thursday January 02, 2014 @09:34AM (#6999703)
...shared among all the processes in the system. Having 8MB of cache to yourself may seem like a lot, but share it equally with 100 others and you're left with ~80KB.
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