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42 lines
953 B
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Day 1 Notes
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Part1:
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$ elixir day1part1.exs
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618 x 1402 = 866436
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Thoughts:
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Avoid iterating seen elements by consuming the list, and comparing each list element only to the remaining
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elements.
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Part2:
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$ elixir day1part2.exs
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547 x 545 x 928 = 276650720
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Thoughts:
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Use a comprehension over two versions of the remaining list to efficiently compare the three items.
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Would have been simpler to use a comprehension for all 3 elements (and for the 2 elements from part 1)
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rather than using recursion for the outer loop.
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E.g.
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for i <- list, j <- list, k <- list, do: ...
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However, can't short-circuit comprehensions, so maybe recursion was a good choice after all 🤷♂️
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Tried it out, and turned out that while it doesn't short-circuit, it's still pretty quick. So I added
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day1refactored.exs with the simpler implementation.
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$ elixir day1refactored.exs
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Part1: 618 x 1402 = 866436
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Part2: 928 x 547 x 545 = 276650720
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