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An unofficial home for the advent of code community on programming.dev! Other challenges are also welcome!
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Oh my god. I'm calling: tomorrow will probably be the day I fail lmao. It has been so hard to get a correct result. Then I spent a solid half hour to optimize the solution so that :
It seems that using a
int8to encodecolorinstead of the defaultint64was the right idea lmao. I'm also happy to have understood how to multithread a Go application and I'm totally bought by the simplicity. This language really helped me by abstracting everything in goroutines and call it a day.I have also been able to create small goroutines which job was to generate values one by one and abstract the real control-flow in order not to allocate a whole big array at once, reducing further my memory footprint.
This is the second time in my life I want to say I loved using Go. Last time was when I waited to pretty print json files, my colleague told me how to write a wannabe-oneliner in Go to do it myself. Never looked back.
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