Day 5: If You Give a Seed a Fertilizer
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Language: Python
Part 1
The first part wasn’t too bad… once I realized you should store the ranges and not actually generate all the numbers o_O.
Seeds = list[int] Map = tuple[int, int, int] Maps = list[Map] def read_almanac(stream=sys.stdin) -> tuple[Seeds, list[Map]]: seeds: Seeds = [int(seed) for seed in stream.readline().split(':')[-1].split()] maps: Maps = [] for line in map(str.strip, stream): if line.endswith('map:'): maps.append([]) continue try: dst, src, length = map(int, line.split()) except ValueError: continue maps[-1].append((dst, src, length)) return seeds, maps def locate_seed(seed: int, maps: list[Map]) -> int: location = seed for amap in maps: for dst, src, length in amap: if src <= location < src + length: location = dst + (location - src) break return location def main(stream=sys.stdin) -> None: seeds, maps = read_almanac(stream) locations = [locate_seed(seed, maps) for seed in seeds] print(min(locations))
Part 2
This part took me forever, mostly to actually run, but also to fix a few off-by-one errors :|
Fortunately, I was able to re-use most of my code in Part A and just add a new function to search the range of seeds.
Even with
concurrent.futures
and a 24-core machine, it still took me about 30 - 45 minutes to complete with Python (that said, there were only 10 seed range s in the input, so I could only use 10 cores, and of those 5 of the ranges appeared to be really large, leading to a long tail effect).def locate_seeds(srange: Range, maps: list[Map]={}) -> int: seeds = range(srange[0], srange[0] + srange[1]) locator = functools.partial(locate_seed, maps=maps) return min(map(locator, seeds)) # Main Execution def main(stream=sys.stdin) -> None: seeds, maps = read_almanac(stream) locator = functools.partial(locate_seeds, maps=maps) with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor: locations = executor.map(locator, batched(seeds, 2)) print(min(locations))
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