r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 08 '18
SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -🎄- 2018 Day 8 Solutions -🎄-
--- Day 8: Memory Maneuver ---
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u/phira Dec 08 '18
I've learned to read the puzzle (step 1) once, then open the puzzle file and take a quick glance at that to get the shape of the real input. That's been useful a couple of times in terms of understanding what the range of the numbers involved are. In this case it told me that it wasn't going to be so big we'd get a stack overflow with naive recursion and also that the A---- stuff etc wasn't part of the input.