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April 10th, 2006

1000 Character Challenge

We’ve been talking to our language experts and understand why the obfuscated entries are running faster than the legible versions (more on this later). You all have made great suggestions as to how we can improve the contest, especially with respect to obfuscation. After careful thought, we’ve decided not to make any changes for this contest.

Our next mid-contest challenge, however, will be obfuscation-friendly! It will go to the best-scoring entry less than 1000 characters in length and submitted today before 8PM EDT. Length is measured in terms of bytes, so white space (even newlines) is included. We added a section to the Statistics to help us keep track. If the winning entry is an identical resubmission of an entry that happens to get a better time, we will award the prize to the original.

By Matthew Simoneau

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