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by someguyorother 1790 days ago
> That's interesting that you're familiar with how it scales to different cores; I've never played around with the core parameters that much.

It's simply the combinatorial explosion: it's easier to find a surprising and good program in ten lines with pointers limited to a max value of 800, than with hundred lines and a pointer max value of 8000.