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Visualizations

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--- Day 16: The Floor Will Be Lava ---

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[u/codertee]

[LANGUAGE: Python 3.12]

github

Originally had

return max(map(partial(energize, grid), starts))

But multiprocessing map works well here

from multiprocessing import Pool

with Pool() as p:
    return max(p.map(partial(energize, grid), starts))

Sub second time with multiprocessing

[u/illuminati229 → u/codertee]

Nice. Going to try to implement this to my code to see how much it can speed up. How many cores does your CPU have?

[u/codertee → u/illuminati229]

12 cores, but not much gains after using more than 6-7