Re: P2P Golf: MoleSter

You did better than I did (_especially_ with optimizing sub a, and with getting rid of the Socket constants, which I knew was possible but didn't do), although you did miss a couple of opportunities...

As someone else also noted, undef$/, while it saves one stroke over the original, is still suboptimal. I have $/=$3. A related situation occurs later with undef$k{$p}, only there $3 might be defined, so I have $k{$p}=$7 in that case. $7 will always be undef in molester. Update: your updated version does this in the first of the two cases.
open F,'>',$_[1] is slightly suboptimal. I have open F,">$_[1]", saving one stroke. I saved another stroke doing the same thing when it's opened for reading. Update: your updated version does this too.
Because sub a is declared before sub t, you can dispense with the parens when t calls a, saving two characters: (connect X,a$w) Update: your updated version does even better than this.
My /. post doesn't _demonstrate_ this, but it mentions it: converting the if/else isn't as fruitful as I'd hoped, due to the need to use and after the print (for precedence reasons), but it does shave off a couple of strokes. Update: I believe this is still good for a couple of strokes.
another update: I think we can shave one more stroke by using a statement modifier in sub g. This will cause F to be closed whether it's successfully opened or not, but that should be okay I _think_.
Yet Another Update: But I lost that character again fixing what I think is a bug in your regex optimization, having to do with the slashes that separate commands.

We also both missed the argumentless-close trick that someone else pointed out, although I would have to test that one to be sure it doesn't close the socket also (or that doing so doesn't change the operation of the script). Can someone confirm which close statements need their arguments and, for that matter, whether it's possible to eliminate any of the close statements altogether without breaking something?

So I threw out my version and worked from yours update: again, and this is what I now have, weighing in at 508 bytes not counting line breaks (522 bytes with a full ASCII CRLF ending every line but the last, or 515 with Unix-style one-character newlines):

$/=$_;$(=shift;$a=shift;i(shift);socket S,2,1,6;bind S,a($a);listen
S,5;while(@ARGV&&($_="$( $a f".shift)||accept(C,S)&&($_=<C>)&&close
C){m!^(.*?) (.*?) ([e-i])([^/]*)./!s&&$(eq$1&&&$3($2,$4,$')}sub f{t($_
+,@_)for
keys%k}sub a{pop=~/:/;pack'CxnC4x8',2,$',split'\.',$`}sub i{$k{$_[0]}=
+1}sub
g{t($_[0],$a,"e$_[1]",<F>)if open F,"<$_[1]";close F}sub h{t($_[0],$_,
+'i')for
keys%k}sub t{socket X,2,1,6;(connect X,a($w=shift))?print
X"$( $_[0] $_[1]/$_[2]"and close X:$k{$w}=$7}sub
e{open F,">$_[1]";print F $_[2];close F}
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Note that this code is completely, utterly untested.

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Re^2: P2P Golf: MoleSter by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Dec 17, 2004 at 14:24 UTC
I got a reply from the author and worked a "little" on it this morning. I'm down to 470 characters over 6 lines. There's a few bugs and several security holes fixed. Fixing them cost a few bytes, but I think it's worth it, overall. I mean, what use is showing Python we can beat them in program size if the program sucks? We have to show them we can write secure network software in 6 lines or less. grins The author is working on revamping the while() loop and moving to use read() instead of <> for the socket. But, I don't have that version, so I'll work with what I have. sub f{for$w(keys%k){&t}}$/=$_;($,,$w=$a,%k)=splice@ARGV,0,3;socket S,2 +,1,6;bind S,&a;sub i{$k{$w}=1}sub a{$w=~/:/;pack'CxnC4x8',2,$',split'\.',$`}sub +t{socket X,2,1,6;if(connect X,a){print X "$, $_[0] $_[1]/$_[2]";close}else{dele +te$k{$w}}} listen S,5;while(@ARGV&&($_="$, $a f".shift)\|\|accept(C,S)&&($_=<C>)&&c +lose){ m!(\S) ([e-i])([^/])/!s&&$,eq$`&&&$2($w=$1,$3,$')}sub e{open F,'>',$ +3;print F $';close}sub g{open(F,'<',$3)&&t$a,"e$3", <F>;close F}sub h{t$_,i for +keys%k} [download] This code is sooo completely untested. :-) The readable version ... Read more... (993 Bytes) Update: After jonadab's suggestions and some reorganization, we save 11 characters (down to 459 over 6 lines): sub f{for$w(keys%k){&t}}$/=$_;($,,$w=$a,%k)=splice@ARGV,0,3;socket S,2 +,1,6;bind S,&a;sub i{$k{$w}=1}sub a{$w=~/:/;pack'CxnC4x8',2,$',split'\.',$`}sub +t{socket X,2,1,6;connect(X,a)?print(X "$, $_[0] $_[1]/$_[2]")&&close:delete$k{$ +w}}listen S,5;while(@ARGV&&($_="$, $a f".shift)\|\|accept(C,S)&&($_=<C>)&&close){s +ub h{t$_,i for keys%k}m!(\S) ([e-i])([^/])/!s&&$,eq$`&&&$2($w=$1,$3,$')}sub e{o +pen F,'>',$3;print F $';close}sub g{open(F,'<',$3)&&t$a,"e$3",<F>;close F} } [download] Yes, there's a subroutine definition in the while-loop. "perl -MO=Deparse" tells me it's ok. Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence. Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: P2P Golf: MoleSter by jonadab (Parson) on Dec 17, 2004 at 15:16 UTC
Wow, there's clearly an evil genius at work here. The splice is an interesting conversion. The thing you're doing calling i in sub h is slightly confusing, but I understand what you're doing with the regex in the while loop now, which I somehow missed last night. (Oh, I see, it was front-anchored in last night's version. That must be one of the bug fixes. But, won't $` contain the separating slash now? I'm still confused there. You've golfed it beyond my ability to follow it.) You've still got the verbose if/else blocks in sub t. Converting to the trinary operator saves, if my calculations are correct, three strokes if you have to parenthesize the middle part, five if you don't. Am I missing something? You've gone back to the three-argument open; is that one of the bug fixes you mentioned? I thought it was semantically the same... and if not, I want to understand the difference for reasons that have nothing to do with obfuscation, golf, or P2P. I assume the delete is a bugfix, to purge dead peers from %k entirely. Makes sense. The space after the comma in sub g, what's the reasoning behind that?	[reply]
Re^2: P2P Golf: MoleSter by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Dec 17, 2004 at 15:57 UTC
In some semblance of order ... The thing you're doing calling i in sub h is slightly confusing, ... I have no idea why any of the functions do what they do. I just make them do it with less characters. The regex changes aren't a bugfix, and there is no separating slash in the first two values - they are separated by a space (which is why \S* is better than .*?). So, no slash in $`. I hadn't gotten to the trinary yet - it probably does save a few characters. I'll do it and put out an update. If you have `open(F, ">$_[1]")` and the filename is ">foo" ... what happens? The 3-arg open() prevents that. The space after the comma is my eyes glazing over. I'll fix it in the update with the trinary. Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence. Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: P2P Golf: MoleSter by jonadab (Parson) on Dec 23, 2004 at 22:58 UTC