aoc VS adventofcode

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.

The only code differs for two parts is as follows - https://github.com/bhosale-ajay/adventofcode/blob/master/2023/ts/D07.test.ts - under 80 lines.

Easy day TypeScript, P1 - Brute Force, P2 - Formula

[LANGUAGE: TypeScript] Github - Under 40 lines, all parts running under 8ms.

[LANGUAGE: TypeScript] TypeScript - Running under 30ms (both parts)

F# This year I solved puzzles using TypeScript as well as F# - Day 18, 19, and 22 TBD

F# - After looking at some Python solution calculated the position of blizzard for nth time instead of maintaining the grid, which makes it easier with F#.