I really tried maintaining a pointer but I was jus...
# advent-of-codet
todd.ginsberg
12/09/2018, 5:34 PMI really tried maintaining a pointer but I was just getting confused and off by one and just figured this was easier for me. Might be slower.
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andyb
12/09/2018, 5:59 PMNice solution, tried a LinkedList but Part 2 seemed to take forever.
In the end I used an ArrayDeque as it is backed by an array rather than a list. Was much quicker (~1 sec for part2)
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todd.ginsberg
12/09/2018, 6:10 PMPart 2 with this took me 2.2s.
todd.ginsberg
12/09/2018, 6:11 PMI guess a Deque is faster. I honestly didn't think to try that, I never remember it is there.
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andyb
12/09/2018, 7:51 PM2.2s is impressive, my original solution was gone for minutes.
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todd.ginsberg
12/09/2018, 8:28 PMYeah, I got tired of waiting for the MutableList version, so I reverted to LinkedList. 🙂
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