bf VS quine-relay

Brainfuck makes it very easy to benchmark various optimizations that you can do to its interpreter.[0] Rendering a Mandelbrot set goes from 28.57 to 6.49 seconds with basic preprocessing!

[0] https://github.com/siraben/bf

If there were more languages, then it'd be `console.log("System.out.println({python_source})")`, etc. The problem then becomes quoting and escaping inner quotes. I managed to avoid the problem by using both single and double quotes, and relying on Python's `repr` also giving valid JS strings, but if I had to add one more language I'd have problems.

I still think the Quine Relay is a tour de force, but for different reasons. It's not 128 quines in different languages, but an incredibly robust system for quoting and escaping strings in 128 different languages.

[1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/src/code-gen...

This comes from the same dev known for the 128-language quine relay, where each of the 128 languages prints a program in the next one, looping all the way to the original one. In alphabetical order and as ASCII art, no less.

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

One of the most impressive works I've seen: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

Or a Quine relay.

Quine relay [1] is to this day the most "I will never understand this" brainfuck project I have ever seen.

[1] https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

Or this one

The top of the repo explains it: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

This issue imploring Yusuke Endoh to write a paper about it is amusing:

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues/10

> p-e-w:

> This is more than a cool program – it's a computer science breakthrough! Apparently, you have discovered a method for constructing quines based on an arbitrary blueprint involving any amount of languages.