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Title: Underhanded Code Contest
Post by: iago on April 05, 2006, 10:25:18 AM

I remember reading about this last year, and it was a pretty neat contest. It's going on again this year. Basically, you have to write some code that runs fast on one OS, and sloooooow on another. But you have to make it look perfectly innocent so that somebody viewing the code doesn't immediately see what's going on.

http://www.brainhz.com/underhanded/

Title: Re: Underhanded Code Contest
Post by: Joe on April 12, 2006, 02:02:39 PM

Use JavaOp. It runs horrible on Windows (RAM/processor usage) but fine on Linux!

EDIT -
Oh, its C only. =(

Title: Re: Underhanded Code Contest
Post by: MyndFyre on April 12, 2006, 03:10:24 PM

QuoteThe program is supposed to read a set of words on stdin, and print a frequency count of unique words in lexicographical order.

(Don't feel too bad, I missed it too).

Title: Re: Underhanded Code Contest
Post by: Furious on April 13, 2006, 08:08:16 AM

Quote from: Joe on April 12, 2006, 02:02:39 PM
Use JavaOp. It runs horrible on Windows (RAM/processor usage) but fine on Linux!

EDIT -
Oh, its C only. =(

God yes...I can vouch for JavaOp ;x

Clan x86

Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => General Programming => Topic started by: iago on April 05, 2006, 10:25:18 AM