aoc2021 VS adventofcode

I've done every year in Haskell (2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021), and so have several other people such as /u/glguy. I don't see if /u/mstksg has anything published for 2015 but they've done 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 along with some pretty good writeups, I recommend checking those out.

I ran my own benchmarks for a whole ton of code at https://github.com/ephemient/aoc2021 on both Linux x64 and macos x64, and ended up disabling Kotlin/Native because it was varying between 10x and 100x slower than Kotlin/JVM, eventually timing out on CI. The generated code may be reasonable thanks to LLVM, but the runtime certainly is not.

Took a while for me to get around to completing this in Kotlin, Python, and Rust as well, since I was working on optimizing other solutions, but I finally made it.

So I switched tacks and implemented this in Kotlin, where mutation is easier. First version was brute-force with duplicate state avoidance (checked before the state explosion at every input), which worked quickly enough for part 1, but ran into OOMs for part 2. Once I replaced the HashSet with a custom LruSet (and later a simpler CacheSet which simply overwrites on hash collisions) it ran part 2 in a few minutes. I then ported this into Haskell.

Haskell 1171/339

Kotlin, Python, and Rust solutions are the same solution but much uglier.

I'm doing the same cached recursion in Kotlin, Python, and Rust.

Haskell 621/603

Haskell 258/240

Haskell Kotlin 622/1185

On GitHub.

My Scala solution – to be cleaned up.

Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! Day 18 was pretty straightforward, though it presents some interesting choices in how to represent the data -- choices I'm not sure I made optimally.

My Scala solution.

And I've solved all of the Advent of Code problems so far this year, which is utterly unimportant but still brings me joy.

If you'd enjoy some coding challenges, advent of code (https://adventofcode.com/) is currently going on.

Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! In Day 17 we got to (sort of) play Tetris. Five different Tetris-like shapes fall into a pit, moved left or right on each step according to the input. The first task is to see how high this stack will grow after 2022 blocks have been dropped in.

Welcome back to my series of Advent of Code solutions in MiniScript! Day 16 was... how to put this?