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Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - Martin Alderson

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Comparing token efficiency across 19 popular programming languages using RosettaCode data - from Clojure to C, there's a 2.6x difference.

I've been trying to think through what happens to programming languages and tooling if humans are increasingly no longer writing it. I wrote about how good agents are at porting code recently , and it got me thinking a bit more about what constraints LLMs have vs humans. One of the biggest constraints LLMs have is on context length. This is a difficult problem to solve, as memory usage rises significantly with longer context window in current transformer architectures. And with the current memory shortages, I don't think the world is drowning in memory right now. As such, for software developm

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