Day 9: Movie Theater
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FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
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Futhark
First, formatting the input with an unreadable sed script:
formatting script
Then, the actual program. main is the default entrypoint, part one is trivially solved in the preparations for part two. In part two, the faster check is to look for any point inside the current rectangle. If this can’t find any, it’ll have to check whether any edge crosses through the rectangle with a simple range check. I’m not happy with the performance, I feel like I left a lot on the table.
As always, wonky syntax highlighting