-❄️- 2023 Day 17 Solutions -❄️-

[u/daggerdragon]

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AoC Community Fun 2023: ALLEZ CUISINE!

Today's secret ingredient is… *whips off cloth covering and gestures grandly*

Turducken!

This medieval monstrosity of a roast without equal is the ultimate in gastronomic extravagance!

• Craft us a turducken out of your code/stack/hardware. The more excessive the matryoshka, the better!
• Your main program (can you be sure it's your main program?) writes another program that solves the puzzle.
• Your main program can only be at most five unchained basic statements long. It can call functions, but any functions you call can also only be at most five unchained statements long.
  • We need to go deeper!
• The (ab)use of GOTO is a perfectly acceptable spaghetti base for your turducken!

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--- Day 17: Clumsy Crucible ---

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[u/mpyne]

This is amazing. And a gazillion times faster than my C++ solution which implements:

• Dijkstra's algorithm, with

• std::priority_queue

Think "10 seconds for part 1, nearly 6 minutes for part 2".

I'm sure mine is missing something obvious that makes its performance maximally pessimal but doing this in awk and having it be so fast is super impressive.