copy pasting the rules from last year’s thread:

Rules: no spoilers.

The other rules are made up aswe go along.

Share code by link to a forge, home page, pastebin (Eric Wastl has one here) or code section in a comment.

  • zogwarg@awful.systems
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    5 days ago
    Day 9 discussion

    Part two for me was also very slow until I, speed up the index search by providing a lower bound for the insertion. for every insertion of size “N”, I have an array lower = [null, 12, 36, …], since from the left any time you find free space for a given size, the next time must be at an index at least one larger, which makes it close to being O(N) [assuming search for the next free space is more or less constant] instead of O(N^2), went from about 30s to 2s. https://github.com/zogwarg/advent-of-code/blob/main/2024/jq/09-b.jq