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		Luc on Nov 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A raytracer in 7 lines of 'K' > Except that a machine language program would be thousands if not millions of times as long. Oi, I seriously doubt that. Seriously, millions? It's all math. Take a couple of assembler instructions per operation. I bet there's 256 byte assembler demo's out there...

gruseom on Nov 16, 2009 [–]

You're probably right. I was thinking maybe millions of 0s and 1s (if those count as tokens at the lowest level) but that's getting silly.

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