AdventOfCode.Template VS advent-of-code-2021

Earlier this year, I wrote about scripting and automation in VSCode using typescript as part of an ongoing project to reduce time consuming repetitive actions in my professional life. So this seemed like a perfect opportunity to do something similar at a more targeted domain space. Additionally, I'd seen a few examples of AOC runners floating around (pre-built libraries and templates that come with hope to help streamline the mechanics of participating in AOC). There are a few solutions in the .NET ecosystem, but they're all in C#!

You can use it 'as-is', or start from this template to better understand how it works 😊

I didn't really care about executing times, but using C# I ran into array size limits which made me switch to my approach. I'm using eduherminio/AdventOfCode solver framework which returns 0.5ms as a result, which I'm pretty sure is not correct tough. Adding a stopwatch to the executing method returns 3ms. Hope that helps.

Great, me too! Check out this c# template on github for an easy way to manage the problems

My original, unoptimized JS solution runs 9999999 in about 440 seconds. I thought that I'd cut that down with some heavy optimization, but it still takes the exact same time. Some loose profiling shows that most of the time is actually spent waiting for memory accesses, not in the CPU. I guess that's due to all the BigInts.

I'm using Javascript (NodeJS) again this year. I've got a small common/io.js module that exports this function:

Javascript [Part 1] [Part 2]