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golfed

  1. simple past and past participle of golf

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golfed (not comparable)

  1. (programming) Having had its source code made as short as possible, as in code golf.
    • 2006, Chromatic, Damian Conway, Curtis Poe, Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving:
      One of the best optimizations of Perl programs is trimming the number of operations it has to perform. The less work it has to do, the better. This isn't an argument for obfuscated or golfed code—just good profiling []