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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I haven't been doing Advent this year. What was day 5's problem and why did dicts fail?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was a series of number ranges that mapped onto other ranges. The simple approach was filling dictionaries, which worked well for the example data. In the actual data, there ranges were much much larger (in the 100,000,000's), which made the dictionaries prohibitively large.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If each number was 8 bytes wide, it would require, if I didn't mess up my math, 18 GB to fully represent all seeds/numbers as an array.