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Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

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🌉 - 2024 DAY 7 SOLUTIONS - 🌉 (programming.dev)

submitted 3 weeks ago by CameronDev@programming.dev to c/advent_of_code@programming.dev

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Day 7: Bridge Repair

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[–] lwhjp@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Since all operations increase the accumulator, I tried putting a guard (a <= x) in apply, but it doesn't actually help all that much (0.65s -> 0.43s).

[–] VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

0.65 -> 0.43 sounds pretty strong, isn't that a one-fourth speedup?

Edit: I was able to achieve a 30% speed improvement using this on my solution

[–] lwhjp@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's not insignificant, sure, but I'd prefer 10x faster :D

Plus I'm not sure it's worth the loss of generality and readability. It is tempting to spend hours chasing this kind of optimization though!