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# Best Short Program:
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Jeff Weisberg
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University of Rochester
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Dept of Electrical Engineering
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Computer Studies Bldg
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Rochester, NY 14627
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USA
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Jeff Weisberg
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University of Rochester
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Dept of Electrical Engineering
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Computer Studies Bldg
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Rochester, NY 14627
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USA
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## To build:
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make all
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```sh
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make all
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```
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## To run
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./weisberg
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## To run:
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## Judges' comments
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```sh
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./weisberg
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```
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This entry confuses some C-preprocessors and some C-beautifiers.
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We found one cpp that processed this source differently when
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it was read on stdin instead of via cc -E.
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### Alternative code:
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If you liked what you saw from the above program, and happen to
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have some 512 Megabytes of virtual memory laying around with to do,
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you could try:
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If you liked what you saw from the above program, and happen to
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have some 512 Megabytes of virtual memory lying around with to do,
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you could try:
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make weisberg.alt
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./weisberg.alt
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```sh
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make weisberg.alt
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./weisberg.alt
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```
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Lesser systems will find this alternative version a good way to create
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a core file. :-)
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Lesser systems will find this alternative version a good way to create
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a core file. :-)
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## Author's comments
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Description:
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The following short program implements the "Yet Another" algorithm for
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generating prime numbers. It will generate all primes up to 33554432,
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displaying them to the standard output as it churns along. As 33554432
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is rather large on most machines, this code may take quite some time to
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run to completion, so as an added feature, it will cease execution upon
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reception of a signal (any will do equally well), as well as in the
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event of a system shutdown or reboot.
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Bugs:
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The alternative version (weisberg.alt) has never actually run
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to completion. After running for close to a week it had reached
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somewhere around 250e6, when it became necessary to test the
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reboot feature (which worked remarkably well) As there are
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quite a lot of primes to be found before reaching MAXINT, the
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output produced can be quite overwhelming, it recommended to
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pipe the output through your favorite pager (more or less), and not
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output to a paper output device (unless you have *LOTS* of paper).
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## Judges' comments:
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Technical:
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The original "Yet Another Prime Program" algorithm used here was
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developed as a Computer Architecture course micro-programing exercise,
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and was designed to take full advantage of the UR300
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micro-architecture to achieve blindingly fast speed. It was ported to
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C specifically for the IOCCC. In the conversion/obfuscation step some
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of (much of) the blazing speed was lost, but as a bonus, the
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understandability of the code was reduced to zero.
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This entry confuses some C-preprocessors and some C-beautifiers.
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We found one cpp that processed this source differently when
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it was read on stdin instead of via `cc -E`.
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## Author's comments:
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### Description:
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The following short program implements the "Yet Another" algorithm for
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generating prime numbers. It will generate all primes up to 33554432,
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displaying them to the standard output as it churns along. As 33554432
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is rather large on most machines, this code may take quite some time to
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run to completion, so as an added feature, it will cease execution upon
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reception of a signal (any will do equally well), as well as in the
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event of a system shutdown or reboot.
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### Bugs:
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The alternative version ([weisberg.alt](weisberg.alt.c)) has never actually run
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to completion. After running for close to a week it had reached somewhere around
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250e6, when it became necessary to test the reboot feature (which worked
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remarkably well). As there are quite a lot of primes to be found before reaching
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`INT_MAX`, the output produced can be quite overwhelming, it recommended to pipe
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the output through your favorite pager (`more` or `less`), and not output to a
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paper output device (unless you have *LOTS* of paper).
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### Technical:
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The original "Yet Another Prime Program" algorithm used here was developed as a
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Computer Architecture course micro-programming exercise, and was designed to
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take full advantage of the UR300 micro-architecture to achieve blindingly fast
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speed. It was ported to C specifically for the IOCCC. In the
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conversion/obfuscation step some of (much of) the blazing speed was lost, but as
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a bonus, the understandability of the code was reduced to zero.
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## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
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