Timeline for I double the source, you double the output!
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| Feb 13, 2018 at 14:15 | comment | added | Martin Ender | @Christopher This has nothing to do with rewriting the interpreter in another language. The source code of your program in memory is 2 bytes, not 3. Whether you create that string with a literal (which takes more than 2 characters) or read it from a file (which would contain 2 characters) doesn't matter. | |
| Feb 13, 2018 at 12:59 | comment | added | user63187 | @martin can't do that without rewriting the language in a different language. Since I don't plan on using it anymore I really have no reason | |
| Feb 13, 2018 at 10:31 | comment | added | Martin Ender |
@Christopher I don't think Dennis had enough context to answer that. The size of a program is the actual size of the byte representation of the source code. Writing "1\n" in JavaScript code creates a string containing two characters, so the size of the program should be 2 bytes. You could replace that string literal with a short expression that loads the source code from a text file. That text file would need to contain a literal linefeed, not \n, and its size would be 2 bytes.
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| Feb 11, 2018 at 21:51 | comment | added | user63187 | @Jakob chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42803737#42803737 | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 21:48 | history | edited | user63187 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2017 at 21:25 | comment | added | Jakob | continuing in chat | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 21:24 | comment | added | Jakob | Could you provide a reference to the thread on Meta? You posted a 3-byte solution here, but the solution you link to is 2 bytes. This doesn't make sense to me. | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 1:32 | comment | added | Jakob |
You're referring to the last line of code, correct? That is an actual newline; the string literal is 2 bytes (i and a newline), but its representation in JavaScript source is three (i\n). Your submission here should be encoded as text, not JavaScript source.
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| Aug 22, 2017 at 22:38 | comment | added | Jakob | You should indicate a newline by leaving an empty line in the code block, not by using an escape sequence. | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 16:15 | history | answered | user63187 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |