Solutions for Advent of Code 2022 using Rust. This repository uses a template of fspoettel to make an extremely comfortable experience. Go give them some star!!

The following times were recorded in my local machine. Parsing time is usually considered out of the equation but I will probably update the code to add that measuring too.

Total running time for all days and parts: 49.40ms (at the moment).

• The template of fspoettel is awesome but I tweaked a bit to match my intentions, like parsing the input just once for both parts if it's possible.
• The ASCII inputs are awesome to work with bytes instead of strings and improve the performance times.
• Rc<RefCell<T>> combo really asks for macros and the use of type to stop those painfully long lines.
• I love to craft specialized data structures like I had to do on Day 06.
• I'm pretty proud of the decision to build a bigger array for the Marker data structure of Day 06. It allowed me to do the array advancement a lot better.
• The Day 06 I decided to use traits and a bit of duplicated code, it would have worked with const generics but I wanted to make at least one solution based on default trait implementations for dedicated structs.
• I was trying to make some weird things to solve Day 07 instead of the logic approaches and that made me lose a lot of time. I was actually defeated the first day and had to left it to the next. It was easy with the obvious approach.
• For Day 08 I looked the size of the grid manually to use arrays. I see it as part of the optimization, sorry not sorry. To deal with the difference between the example and input I used the [cfg()] macro and it worked wonders. Macros were also a big part of this day.
• At last, in Day 09 const generics made an appearance. It's a wonderful tool for these type of exercises where you sometimes need to work with different sizes and don't want to use Vec. I also had to use Copy for the first time.
• My little experience with emulation was a good help for Day 10.
• The actual computation of Day 10 is solely based on the input preparation so I really need to create the measurement for the loading part.
• I actually enjoyed the complex parsing required on Day 11 and then complex deduction needed.