Comments on: Blockbuster Contest Wrap Up

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 09 May 2006 08:26:29 +0000

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.

By: Stijn Helsen

Stijn Helsen — Sat, 06 May 2006 09:31:52 +0000

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.

By: Alan Chalker

Alan Chalker — Wed, 03 May 2006 02:26:13 +0000

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.