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  • Quines

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  • Polyglot palindrome quine

Quines

Willard Van Orman Quine

(source: Wikipedia)

Let's write a quine

Don't try this at home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

Bit twiddling

Counting the 1s in a 32-bit word

00000001000010100110100001001001

(17,459,273)

Counting the 1s in a 32-bit word

Naive implementation

int popCount(int x) {
  int ones = 0;
  for (int i = 0; i < 32; i++) {
    if (x & 1) ones += 1;
    x = x >> 1;
  }
  return ones;
}

13 x 32 = 416 x86 instructions (on average)

lots of branch misses

Counting the 1s in a 32-bit word

Optimal (?) implementation

int popCount(unsigned int x) {
  x = x - ((x >> 1) & 0x55555555);
  x = (x & 0x33333333) + ((x >> 2) & 0x33333333);
  x = (x + (x >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F;
  x = x + (x >> 8);
  x = x + (x >> 16);
  return x & 0x0000003F;
}

33 x86 instructions

no branching

(source: Beautiful Code, ch. 10)

Code golf

Print all the prime numbers < 1000

# Sieve of Eratosthenes.
# Prints all the prime numbers between 1 to n.
def eratosthenes(n):
    multiples = set()
    for i in range(2, n+1):
        if i not in multiples:
            print (i)
            for j in range(i*i, n+1, i):
                multiples.add(j)

eratosthenes(1000)

290 bytes

m,n,r=set(),1001,range
for i in r(2,n):
 if{i}-m:
	print i
	for j in r(i*i,n,i):m.add(j)

Print all the prime numbers < 1000

89 bytes

Polyglots

IOCCC

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                 Alan Turing  (1912--1954)

palipolyquine

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Rabbit holes

Programming trick shots

By Chris Birchall

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