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Advent Of Code
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Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.
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Futhark
As always, futhark does not support arbitrary inputs, so I have a sed script to transform the input to something readable.
input transformer
it produces a textual representation of[][3]u32, try it on your example or input :]Calculate all the distances (even the redundant ones, I had no idea on how to filter them out). Sort them, keep only the first 1000 for part 1. Keep all for part two. Initialize all boxes to be in no component. Add them to components as time goes on. When connecting two boxes already in a component. Mark all boxes in the second component as part of the first one. Stop when everything is connected.
After improving my implementation of
concatMap(preallocate the entire array), the overall performance improved greatly. My end stats areProgram Source
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