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The end result is not useful, but I learned a lot of new things about C and processes along the way.

And I thought it was an inspiring exercise to go as far down to the metal as possible.

It does make me feel guilty when programming Ruby that I sometimes create an entire array object to compare two integers because it looks prettier, without any regard for performance. It feels so wasteful.



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