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Title: 1MB Code
Post by: Xertese on July 03, 2015, 09:45:16 PM

How long do you think it would take a competant typer/coder to pump out 1MB of pure code?

Just talking about the actual code/text here and not about how much memory the commands would use.

Lets say this dude or Girl is typing 4 hours a day without distraction.

Could it be done in one or two sittings?

Title: Re: 1MB Code
Post by: SamuraiCrow on July 04, 2015, 03:04:38 AM

I would say that it would take quite a while.  A million bytes is a lot of code.

Title: Re: 1MB Code
Post by: Xertese on July 04, 2015, 09:52:15 AM

1048576 bytes to be exact or 2097152 nibbles or 8388608 bits

Title: Re: 1MB Code
Post by: Lonewolf10 on July 04, 2015, 07:21:37 PM

Quote from: SamuraiCrow on July 04, 2015, 03:04:38 AM

I would say that it would take quite a while.  A million bytes is a lot of code.

It is quite easy to type out 300 to 400 bytes (e.g. comments) without really thinking about it, but to actually try to code something 1MB (megabytes) in size deliberately would take a long while... I assume that using copy and paste shortcuts is not allowed? :D