Advent of Code 2020 - BaseA Style (Day 3)

[Jean-Balteryx]

Discussion thread for day 3 of the Advent of Code : https://adventofcode.com/2020/day/3

[jdunkerley79]

Day 3 - getting trickier, needed more thought

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[NicoleJohnson]

I definitely am finding myself suffering from flashbacks and asking myself "How can I build this so that it is flexible enough that I can still be using it 12 challenges later?"...

Also, per usual, was fairly pleased with my solution until I saw @jdunkerley79 10-tool variation. Sigh.

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Cheers!

NJ

[jdunkerley79]

@NicoleJohnson this one absolutely had the feeling that this won't be the last we see of the toboggan!

You're still top of the table 🙂

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[Jean-Balteryx]

And ... I went for the macros on day 3.

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[cgoodman3]

Day 3 reminds me of this

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[cgoodman3]

@Jean-Balteryx how is the runtime with the batch and iterative macro? I think it was 2018 were we discovered switching from macros to generating lots of rows the run time is really fast.

[Jean-Balteryx]

@cgoodman3 10 seconds, I think your solution is faster !

[cgoodman3]

It's because there were challenges in 2018 that would take 1 hour+ to run using iterations and batch macros, but using things like generate rows gets the run time down into the minutes ballpark.

[AkimasaKajitani]

Day 03

I made macro, too. But my approach is putting the part 1 workflow into macro.

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Macro: