Day 5: If You Give a Seed a Fertilizer

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  • @sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org
    2•7 months ago

    [C]

    My first approach to part 2 was to take the list of ranges, map it to a new list of (possibly split up) ranges, etc, but I realized that would take more memory and bookkeeping than I’d like. Scrapped it and rewrote it with recursion. Much cleaner and the benchmarks are still looking good! (But for how much longer?)

    $ bmake bench
day01  0:00.00  1380 Kb  0+78 faults
day02  0:00.00  1660 Kb  0+82 faults
day03  0:00.00  1540 Kb  0+107 faults
day04  0:00.00  1536 Kb  0+80 faults
day05  0:00.00  1668 Kb  0+83 faults

    https://github.com/sjmulder/aoc/blob/master/2023/c/day05.c

    Edit: I see some people went for looping from 0 to try possible answers. Clever and short but I wanted to go for a more efficient approach.

    • Leo Uino
      1•7 months ago

      Ah, nice! Dealing with each range individually makes things much simpler.