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James_K on June 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word c...

That isn't relevant in the ASCII example, and the UTF-8 one uses a 256×256 table.

samatman on June 21, 2024 [–]

Half of all bytes are illegal ASCII though.

James_K on June 21, 2024 | [–]

And actually there isn't a state for illegal ASCII so it makes no sense to have a transition to/from it. And it still can never receive a 3 as input and use that transition.

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