aoc VS Advent-of-code

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.

Wow, almost identical to mine: https://github.com/MichalMarsalek/Advent-of-code/blob/master/2022/Nim/day6.nim

This year I was writing two sets of solutions in Nim. The first one focuses on idiomatic, nice and short and readable Nim. The other focuses purely on speed. The combined running times of the fast solutions is 130 ms. Please let me know if you have any tips on how to make my solutions more simple and/or idiomatic.

Beautiful Nim! My solution is actually very similar.