Day 7: Laboratories
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FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465


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Part 1 was fun, though I had quite some frustration with getting the loop work the way I wanted it to.
For part 2 I didn’t actually need to modify that much, just pass another function to deal with the list of tachyons: part 1, remove duplicates, part 2, don’t remove and count at the end. Easy. Or so I thought.
I realized something was wrong when it just wouldn’t stop running and the fan got louder.
Today I started over from scratch and decided to solve both parts at once since I basically got the counts for each row anyways, so I just had to change the way the splitting was handled.
There was one occasion where I got an error that the resulting array would be too big (~4GB) but at least I got a warning instead of seeing RAM usage spike suddenly :P
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Code
And for completeness sake:
Previous attempt
Edit: Tried to scrape the old code together but seems like it doesn’t actually work like this. Probably just some small thing I missed but I don’t have the mental energy to take a look at this mess again :P