I was looking through the global leader board for day 3 today and noticed that the first 100 results are all under 90 seconds, with the top 4 being under 30 seconds. How is that possible? What are people leveraging in order to accomplish this?
I was looking through the global leader board for day 3 today and noticed that the first 100 results are all under 90 seconds, with the top 4 being under 30 seconds. How is that possible? What are people leveraging in order to accomplish this?
See for yourself! This is someone solving day 1 of this year:
https://youtu.be/ym1ae-vBy6g
If you’re really going for it, you can automate some of the busy work like getting the input file and a template that’s ready to read it in and split it into lines, then it’s mostly a matter of skimming for what to do and knowing how to zip/map/fold/reduce/etc the data quickly. I was a bit surprised to see him having to add imports to his file, I’d think he’d have those ready to go, and of course quitting out of Vim to run the script isn’t necessary either, but I can’t judge because I definitely do that too…