#ONIPCSOMOSTODOS
#SECTORC
#TACHIRALOSANDES
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#SectorC: A #C #Compiler in 512 bytes
“Big Insight #2 is that atoi() behaves as a (bad) hash function on ordinary text. It consumes characters and updates a 16-bit integer. Hashes are perhaps the holy-grail of computer-science. With a good hash, we can just side-step all the hard problems by trading them for an even harder problem (hash collisions), and then we just ignore that harder problem. Brilliant. (sticks fingers in ears) 🤪”