http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~lulli/codesize/
-- Dummy
Codesize is not affected by the length of your method or variable names, so you can have small code that's still readable.
See also BotCategories
Can someone give me some tips on how to minimize my codesize? ahf.andrew
There are some tips on the BotCategories page, at the bottom. -- Tango
To minimize codesize you have to minimize your intentions. Work with clear, simple ideas. One at the time. Depending on what category you are aiming at, different advice apply. If you're doing a nano you almost have to decide if you should work with movement or targeting. I find that that's true with micros too. (Though expert micro developers prove that it depends on the coders' mind.)
Working with minis you gain a lot by keeping your code clear and ready for change. Optimizing for size in one end can keep you from doing it somewhere else. Don't be afraid to capture yor intentions with a snippet of code in a function or a variable. Read your entire code often. Question everything. Even though a mini can fit 10 or more ideas, I stress that you should work with one idea at a time. Then optimize it carefully, keeping your code readable at all cost. Then next idea. See if you can refactor some of the infrastructure that builds up your previous ideas to support your current one. Run the codesize utility often. What you thought would shrink or grow the codesize might do the opposite. It often does in my experience.
-- PEZ
After havingworked with micros a while I must add that the statement that you "have to decide if you should work with movement or targeting" doesn't necessarily apply to micros. It's fully possible to fit both good targeting, even excellent, and good movement. So far I think it might be hard to produce something excellent in both categories. WaveSurfing probably takes up it share of code size and you'll end up having to reduce your taregting accuracy. That's so far, mind you. I have learnt that about anything is possible in this game. -- PEZ
To get rapid feedback on what shrinks codesize and not I often use my Makefile to measure it for me. For Pugilist it looks like so:
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ROBOCODE_DIR = ../../..
CLASSPATH = /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.4.1/Classes/classes.jar:${ROBOCODE_DIR}/robocode.jar:${ROBOCODE_DIR}/robots
all: macbot
macbot:
/usr/bin/jikes -g -deprecation -Xstdout -classpath ${CLASSPATH} *.java
winbot:
${ROBOCODE_DIR}/jikes-1.16/bin/jikes -g -deprecation -Xstdout -classpath "C:\Program\Java\j2re1.4.1_05\lib\rt.jar;${ROBOCODE_DIR}/robocode.jar;${ROBOCODE_DIR}/robots" *.java
winbot2:
/cygdrive/c/Program/Java/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/javac -classpath "C:\Program\Java\j2re1.4.1_05\lib\rt.jar;${ROBOCODE_DIR}/robocode.jar;${ROBOCODE_DIR}/robots" *.java
linuxbot:
${ROBOCODE_DIR}/jikes-1.16/bin/jikes -g -deprecation -Xstdout +T4 -classpath ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/rt.jar:${ROBOCODE_DIR}/robocode.jar:${ROBOCODE_DIR}/robots *.java
cleanall: clean cleantildes
clean:
rm -f *.class
cleantildes:
rm -f *~
pugilist: winbot
java -jar ${ROBOCODE_DIR}/codesize.jar Pugilist.class Wave.class EnemyWave.class WaveSurfer.class | awk '/^[0-9]/ { print; size += $$2 } END { print "size: " size ", left = " 1499 - size }'
Never mind that it's untidy. I have never really bothered with getting it tidy. I work with my bots on several machines and hardcode several targets for it. The target of interest here is "pugilist" of course. It first runs target "winbot" since I am sitting by my Windows box at the moment. Then it runs the codesize utility and filters the output through a little awk-script that prints the gist and also summarizes it for me so I know how many bytes I have left. The outputcan look like this when used from VIM (the best code editor ever):
Now that's neat, in'it? If you don't have awk you'll have to either install it or use some other tool for the summary part. Since I'm often on Mac OS X and Linux this comes with the OS. And on Windows I have installed Cygwin which comes with about all Unix command line tools I need and then some. Without Cygwin, Windows would be completely unbearable for me. I'm addicted to Unix.
-- PEZ