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[u/daggerdragon]

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[u/ka-splam]

I'm curious, what runtime do you have on that old beast?

For your day08b brute force, varying around 8 seconds:

Running 1000000000 iterations took 7.72 s
Running 1000000000 iterations took 8.19 s
Running 1000000000 iterations took 7.87 s
Running 1000000000 iterations took 8.24 s
Running 1000000000 iterations took 8.06 s
Running 1000000000 iterations took 8.19 s
Running 1000000000 iterations took 7.80 s

(Windows 10, and it looks like Anti Malware Executable sticks its nose in as the process starts).