adventofcode.sh VS aoc

I have completed years 2015 and 2020 in bash. Gave up halfway through last year, might do that one day. https://github.com/einarjon/adventofcode.sh

Python3 is about 25% faster than Python2, with the exact same code. Pypy3 was somewhere in between. https://github.com/einarjon/adventofcode.sh/blob/main/2015/04.sh

Mine is on github too. I think that my worst abuse of grep is this: https://github.com/einarjon/adventofcode.sh/blob/main/19.sh Before the cleanup my part2 regex was around 6-7K chars.

My final script is in my repo, but an earlier commit has this brute force version. https://github.com/einarjon/adventofcode.sh in the 2021 folder.

Day 1 was 10 LOC, each day is adding about 10 LOC, so now I'm at 40. I don't like where this is heading. https://github.com/einarjon/adventofcode.sh/blob/main/2021/04.sh Small mistake in Part 2 so it starts the bingo from the beginning, but the first numbers are crossed out. Doesn't affect the result.

My solution this year was almost exactly like the one __abigail__ posted. I based it on last year's code for day 12. There are 50 days worth of bash solutions in that repo if you're interested. Some contain Voodoo, but it's mostly readable - I hope...

I linked to the code. Here it is again. Might be slower in git bash, but works. https://github.com/einarjon/adventofcode.sh/blob/main/13.sh

Personally I just stick to raw arrays for most days, usually with static storage (so pre-allocated). Keeps things simple! Here's my repo.

- C -

Here's my solution. Sorry, I did go a bit overboard making it compact.

That was one heck of a tough day but also very satisfying. I spent quite some time working out a 3D rectangle splitting/merging algorithm on paper and then I had to go and implement that in C. It turned out pretty clean and idiomatic, if I may say so!

This was my first attempt (or at least in a very long time) at generating video. Here I'm generating raw RGB frames in memory and writing them to ffmpeg, which works well enough but it's a little primitive.

At 50 year sold and very stable, C must be one of the easiest languages to get working on old machines. Required just some of the polyfills I wrote back in 2020.

My original solution checked every character against every other character, which performed perfectly fine even for 14 chars, but it felt wrong.

- C -

First a straightforward solution with a double buffer, later realised you could do it in-place by just holding onto one value per row/column.

First wrote a short AWK program to convert the input to C and play with it while running a hopeless brute force attempt.