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1. janals+Xj[view] [source] 2026-01-12 04:03:50
>>tehnub+(OP)
This is kind of just a measurement of how representative a language is in the distribution of the tokenizer training. You could have a single token equal to “public static void main”.
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2. crypto+DC[view] [source] 2026-01-12 07:12:33
>>janals+Xj
Well, yes, looking beyond token efficiency I find that the more constrained (stronger and richer static typing) the language the better/faster (fewer rounds of editing and debugging, ergo fewer tokens) the LLM deals with it. C is a nightmare.
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