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Tricky Code

Explore how to balance concise and clear coding styles in C, understanding the trade-offs between tricky short code and explicit clearer code. Learn to judge code efficiency, avoid common pitfalls, and prepare to optimize runtime performance with practical debugging techniques.

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Short vs. explicit

As a general rule, explicit code should be preferred over using ‘tricks’ to make code extremely short. There is a trade-off, of course. Short, tricky code is less code, but the ...