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Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%

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What it is

Matt Parker follows the community effort to speed up his slow Wordle-solving code, which ended up running hundreds of millions of times faster. He walks through the techniques contributors used.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as a fun example of how algorithmic changes can yield enormous performance gains.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “It can be a really fun game!”

    Fun community game of speeding up code

    db48x, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Is there a code golf community but for performance instead of size?”

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Topics: performance, wordle, algorithms, optimization, matt parker

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