advent-of-code-wim VS aoc

Thanks for the extra example. I've added it to my CI and test suite in https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-wim/pull/89

Full code here

I'm using Python so I'll never be as fast as the people using Rust or C, but am still able to solve most puzzles in under 1 second (repo: https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-wim).

Thanks for the kind words, well the source is here so you can just take a look. You have to run with var AOC_DEBUG=1 in env to enable the rendering.

I used an AStar pathfinder already prepared from earlier years (aoc2022/q12.py), just leaving the default null heuristic. If I understand correctly that is just a BFS.

https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-wim/blob/main/aoc_wim/ocr.py has nearly all the letters we've seen (including a larger font used once in 2018) although it is missing the 5-wide Y that was in my 2016-day 08 puzzle

By the way, I found that if you're willing to use pathlib and a guard, you actually only need 2 of those 6 case statements - it looks like this.

Python (repo). I was particularly pleased with how quick the parsing was.

Python + "AOCR" + complex numbers.

Python

❯ time make run cat input.txt | go run ./aoc12.go 2616490 2507471 make run 3.33s user 0.21s system 101% cpu 3.504 total ❯ ls -alh input.txt -rw-r--r--@ 1 erika staff 29M Dec 14 01:17 input.txt I had to change H, W := 8192, 8192, my Go program is on github

Here's is a GitHub link to my solution for today challenge.

My solution grows a sliding window over the input while scanning it. At any point, it ensures this window to be the largest possible with no repeating symbols. The underlying algorithm is: