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From: JKW <jwilkinson@mail.utexas.edu>
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Subject: Re: Killer
Date: 19 Mar 1996 05:01:53 GMT
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Mr I M Oversby <ee31io@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
>A wonderful 2 line program :-)
>This is not killed by DAT #1, #1 lines
>        DJN.F   #5,     <-1
>        JMP     -1

But after 8000 cycles you would be killed by 'dat 1, 1's...
You'd be better of with this in most cases:

spl #0
djn.f #0, <-5

Note: moving the "<-1" back to "<-5" will allow you to kill imps
on your first pass.  (And imp-killing is where something like this
could really be helpful.)

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