golfing again

From	"luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	golfing again
Date	2012-12-08 14:02 -0600
Organization	unorganized
Message-ID	<ka06du$643$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I've been toying around with binary encodings and here are some results.

The (mini-)goal is to shrink this sequence to read an input line from the
source file:

currentfile 999 string readline pop
35 chars

A Binary Object Sequence starts with a four-byte header
 type length byte-length
 129  5      ?? ??

Then an executable name 
 type unused -1=systemname 32bit value
 83   0      -1(16bits)    31  currentfile       

An integer is
 type unused lowbyte hibyte
 01   0      999(16bits)

So 4 + 6 (for the number) + 8 * 4 (names) = 42. Forget BOS!


Binary Tokens are a little more promising, but limits to the first 255
system names.

 type            val
 146=x-sys-name  31=currentfile
 135=LE-16b-int  999_10 = E7 03
 146             165=string
 146             125=readline
 146             117=pop

As a hex-string,
<921F87E70392A5927D9275>cvx exec
32 chars.

Not much. :(

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golfing again "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-12-08 14:02 -0600
  Re: golfing again zupftom@googlemail.com - 2012-12-08 13:51 -0800
    Re: golfing again "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-12-08 19:18 -0600
      Re: golfing again tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2012-12-09 00:54 -0500
  47-char binary-name-string exec/Implicitly-named procedures (Re: golfing again) luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-16 15:58 -0800
    Re: 47-char binary-name-string exec/Implicitly-named procedures (Re: golfing again) luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-16 16:02 -0800

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