Landon Curt Noll
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Prepare for the winners of **IOCCC28**. > However these are not the 2024 droids you are looking for. :-) The HTML menu (both JavaScript and non-JavaScript) has been updated. The `Status -> Rules and guidelines' have been replaced with two separate menus `Status -> IOCCC rules` and `Status -> IOCCC guidelines`. Added a new top level `social.html` page: built from a new `social.md`. Sorted rules for building specific web pages in the top level `Makefile`. Added `make social` to make the `social.html` page from `social.md`. The `bin/gen-top-html.sh` now is able to process a argument of **social** to process the new top level `social.html` page. Changed `bin/gen-top-html.sh` VERSION from "2.0.0 2025-03-13" to "2.0.1 2025-07-25". Below `About -> Home page` a new `About -> IOCCC social media` menu item as added. Because the menu change touched every HTML file, we changed the general copyright date range for HTML files from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025" due to the extensive changes made for **IOCCC28**. Those markdown files that were modified in 2025 had their copyright date range also changed from "1984-2024" to "1984-2025". Rebuilt tarballs and sitemap due to the extensive HTML rebuilding. Ran `make update` to perform the above.
To build:
make all
To use:
./heathbar num num
where num is a non-negative number.
Try:
./try.sh
Judges' remarks:
The main reason we liked this entry was mainly because the main effect of the source was self documenting! :-)
Author's remarks:
Run this program with two non-negative integer arguments
(e.g. ./heathbar 1234 999).
My goal was to create the fastest possible C program. To that end, I made three critical observations:
- If there's one thing computers are good at, it's math.
- Simple operations take less time than complicated ones.
- Every C program seems to contain the word
main.
Based on #1, I knew that the Fastest Program had to be one that
performed addition. From #2, I reasoned that it ought to directly
manipulate the bits, rather than wasting time dealing with bloated,
high-level, fuzzy-logic, artificial-intelligence, neural-net,
client-server, object-oriented abstractions like the C language "+"
operator. And it was obvious from #3 that the program should
resemble, as closely as possible, a long sequence of the familiar
word main repeated over and over, so the computer would be
comfortable running the program and wouldn't get distracted dealing
with unfamiliar variable names.
Also, I've looked at some past winning entries of your contest, and if you don't mind a little constructive criticism, some of them are kind-of hard to figure out. I didn't want my program to fall into the same trap, so I went out of my way to write self-documenting code. Anyone who so much as glances at my program will immediately see that it adds two 16-bit unsigned integers by streaming their bits through a simulated cascade of hardware adders. I hope my diligent effort to write especially clear code gets me extra points!
P.S. What does "obfuscated" mean?