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by abecedarius
3632 days ago
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Your last paragraph seems unfair to the comment you're responding to. I too was reminded of SWEET16: they're similar in being very simple interpreted VMs meant to be hand-coded to squeeze code size in tiny computers. They're also invoked in about the same way, to be mixed into native assembly code. If my dim memory of Knuth's article on the early history of compilers is right, Short Code was meant more for programmer productivity than code size. |
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