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May 2nd, 2006

Blockbuster Contest Wrap Up

The Winners Page, Contest Evolution, and Final Analysis are now on the site. Thanks to Hannes and Cobus for writing a detailed analysis of their code that was part of the winning entry. Do check out these pages to hear more from your fellow contestants!

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3 Responses to “Blockbuster Contest Wrap Up”

  1. Alan Chalker replied on May 2nd, 2006 at 22:26 UTC :

    Thanks for the writeups. I’m still curious what the cause of the speedup for obfuscated code was. You said you figured it out midway through the contest and would tell us about it later.

  2. Stijn Helsen replied on May 6th, 2006 at 05:31 UTC :

    The explained CalculateMoves looks a bit similar to my early SHsolver-calculations. I expect that was too slow, because I wanted to hold too much intermediate results for faster later use. I also did it on an enlarged board, I only didn’t think of the unnecessary bottom row.

  3. Markus replied on May 9th, 2006 at 04:26 UTC :

    I have just read the nice contest analysis of Hannes and Cobus. But there is actually one mistake in it: It was not me who introduced the nthroot-computation. It was not included in my twilight winning entry.

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