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What does the source limit in CodeChef mean?

In a practise problem given on CodeChef, the source limit is written under the problem. What does it mean?

PS: If I allocate an array of size 1000 X 1000 and the source limit is 50,000 Bytes, then am I not violating the source limits?

Solution

  • The source limit is the maximum size of the source code; not the memory allocated by the JVM during runtime, so no. You would not be violating the source limits. Read here and Ctrl + F for the source limit.

    However, to thwart lazy coders like me, the problem setter has set a code size limit which is “Source limit”. So your program’s source code must be at most 2000 bytes - CodeChef link above.