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Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%
Stand-up Maths
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.
Cited as a fun example of how algorithmic changes can yield enormous performance gains.
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