Day 8: Playground
Megathread guidelines
- Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
- You can send code in code blocks by using three backticks, the code, and then three backticks or use something such as https://topaz.github.io/paste/ if you prefer sending it through a URL
FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465


That is a very unoptimal pt2 time! Have you tried profiling to see what’s causing the slowdown? Mine is 300ms, or worst case, 4s to process all links.
My algorithm is probably pretty horrible, I was purely out to get a solution as fast as possible. I might try improving it after Day12…