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

Name: Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%
Description: 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.

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

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.

Pull quote: “Quick google yields very good examples in huge improvements on a single algorithm level” (HN, 2023)

Also tagged: code optimization, performance, wordle, algorithms, optimization, matt parker

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Recommends db48x December 2022 under Ask HN: Is there a code golf community but for performance instead of size?

Fun community game of speeding up code

See also “Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%” < [this video] > by Matt Parker. It can be a really fun game!

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it CRConrad December 2022 under A Neat XOR Trick

Example of code made billions of times faster

> 'Drastically' in this context can mean the slower approach taking billions of times longer. Standupmaths - "Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%": [this video] (OK, 41 billion percent is only 0.41 billion times better, but still.)

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Cites it high_priest August 2023 under Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

Example of huge improvement from a single algorithm change

Quick google yields very good examples in huge improvements on a single algorithm level: [this video] Easy to imagine how even smaller improvements across 10-100 steps of data processing, can become even better.

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Makes a joke otikik January 2023 under A New Formula for the Determinant

Also keep in mind that there’s people out there that will take your code and make it 40.363.757.265% more efficient (perhaps not in this case) [this video]

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