Stand-up Maths
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28:47 · 3.1M views · Oct 17, 2022
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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See also “Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%” < this video > by Matt Parker. It can be a really fun game!
> '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.)
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.
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