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More code = more better (lemmy.zip)

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[–] okmko@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Freshman year of college doing assembly programming, I spent a while figuring out a "programmic" way to solve a problem, trying to wrangle labels and gotos. My friend came in with essentially this but as lookup table. It blew my mind.

It was then that I learned to trade space for complexity.