> Assunto:   Re: TerseMan challenge
>  Data:    10/01/00 17:02:02 Brazilian Summer Time
>  From:    Dan.Ingalls at disney.com (Dan Ingalls)
>  Reply-to:    <A HREF="mailto:squeak at cs.uiuc.edu">squeak at cs.uiuc.edu</A>
>  To:  arning at charm.net (Bob Arning)
>  CC:  squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>  
>  >Ok, here's mine (as a changeset to the 2.7 tetris). It
>  >    reduces #linesOfCode from 524 to 291
>  >    reduces #bytesOfCode from 4071 to 2399  "method for this metric is 
included"
> 
>  >Beyond this, I fear that readability will suffer.
>  
>  Bob -
>  
>  Well, that's a beautiful job.  I found almost nothing that I could improve.
>  
>  Is this fun?  Did other people play with this?
>  Would it be fun to have a "challenge of the week"?
>  Or is it better just to leave it up to everyone to find their own favorite 
> areas for sprucing up?
>  
>   - Dan
>  
>  PS:  FYI, there is already a metric similar to your "bytesOfCode" in the 
> system, called "spaceUsed".  It also takes into account method literals, 
> dictionary overhead and the like, and gets pretty close to the actual 
> overhead (it's used as part of "printSpaceAnaslysis").  Your changes 
brought 
> that metric down from 5061 to 3565.
>  

    The idea of a challenge would be *perfect* if some issues like VM speed, 
code "clarity" would be addressed in a regular basis. 
    Tetris is a good game, but how would be the impact in the whole Squeak if 
we turn our faces and hands to deeper things?