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I think a more consistent approach would he to not count lines, but filesizes after the code has been minimized with a specific minimizer. I could write everything in one line in many languages, so lines isn't very clever.
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The code has to be compiled and run on a specific architecture and with specific test input (we don't know if the AoC-example-data is always the same in size or resulting computanional complexity.
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The final metric could be: [minified filesize] * [code execution time] * [problem solving time].
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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Some of the challenges feasably could be solved with a pen and paper amd a keen eye, giving a line count of 0.
#nocode :D
Lines of code can be arbitrarily reduced, and seconds to solve depends to a large extent on how good my hardware is. So both metrics are useless, and multiplying them makes a useless-squared metric.
I love it!
Here are my stats for the solutions so far (with no optimisation beyond the initial solution):
+-----+-----------+-------+---------------+
| Day | Time (s) | Lines | line-seconds |
+-----+-----------+-------+---------------+
| 1 | 0.003 | 35 | 0.098 |
| 2 | 0.001 | 47 | 0.042 |
| 3 | 0.006 | 60 | 0.348 |
| 4 | 0.003 | 41 | 0.115 |
| 5 | 0.077 | 74 | 5.708 |
| 6 | 0.000 | 45 | 0.001 |
| 7 | 0.005 | 87 | 0.395 |
| 8 | 10.175 | 60 | 610.476 |
| 9 | 0.004 | 31 | 0.128 |
| 10 | 0.084 | 103 | 8.634 |
| 11 | 0.240 | 49 | 11.771 |
| 12 | 2.448 | 93 | 227.633 |
| 13 | 0.009 | 83 | 0.707 |
+-----+-----------+-------+---------------+