Re: [FWP] Love & Hate shenanigans

[Sven Neuhaus <sn@neopoly.com>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:49:21PM +0200, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:19:19PM +0300, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> > However, there are some nice ways in which ASCII characters behave in
> > XOR operations.  In particular, XORing a letter with a space flips the
> > case of that letter, so ("foo" ^ " ") eq "Foo".
> 
> I'm wondering if this can be done substantially faster and wether it 
> will find anything in my /usr/dict/words. Right now it checks 10 in ~6 
> seconds on a p2-400 on a dict file with 45402 words.

FYI it ran for 4:25 hours and didn't find anything.

-Sven
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