We all know and love (!) the leaderboard, but how about a different method?

One can solve a problem with a simple, naive method resulting in a short program and long runtime, or put in lots of explicit optimizations for more code and shorter runtime. (Or if you’re really good, a short, fast program!)

I propose the line-second.

Take the number of lines in your program (eg, 42 lines) and the runtime (eg 0.096 seconds). Multiply these together to get a score of 4.032 line-seconds.

A smaller score is a shorter, faster program.

Similarly, (for a particular solver), a larger score is a “harder” problem.

  • lwhjp@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    Oh sure, it’s only for fun - I was thinking of it more of a way to compare my own solutions to different problems.

    I didn’t notice there was a challenges community! That’s awesome. (Maybe a more casual honor-based version where anybody can submit puzzles would be easier? Creating puzzles sounds like fun!)