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The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

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Main Authors:	Pan, Dangfeng, Sun, Zhensu, Zhang, Cenyuan, Lo, David, Du, Xiaoning
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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