🎄 Advent of Code 2022 🎄

I'm again going to participate in the Advent of Code challenge; I'll try to stick with Rust this year too.
I'm a little more time-constrained, so I'll allow myself to switch to a different language for more complex problems.
I don't do this challenge for the leaderboard, so if I'm stuck on a problem, I'll look up tips to help me along the way since my main goal is learning.

🏆 Goal: get all stars before the end of the year! 🏆

✨ New this year ✨

I added a template for my solutions that is available in the template folder so that I can start to solve the problem faster!

The template contains 2 main files:

• src/main.rs - contains the code that will run and benchmark the solution
• src/solution.rs - contains the template for the functions and tests that will actually solve the challenge

I used the amazing cargo-generate, I created a cargo-generate config file at ~/.cargo/cargo-generate with

[favorites.aoc]
description = "Favorites for AOC 2022 template"
vcs = "None"
path = "../template"

So I can just run cargo generate aoc to interactively create the new crate for a solution each day.

❄️ How to use ❄️

cargo run -p day** - Runs a specific day

cargo run -p day** --release - Runs a specific day with compiler optimizations

cargo test -p day** - Tests a specific day

cargo test - Tests all

🥛 Results 🍪

Day	Part 1 Time	Part 1 Rank	Part 1 Runtime1	Part 2 Time	Part 2 Rank	Part 2 Runtime1
1	02:33:34	21725	12.2µs	02:43:17	21176	16.3µs
2	02:39:03	28771	107.9µs	03:24:06	31073	106.3µs
3	04:51:33	36874	350.3µs	05:38:02	36646	320.6µs
4	07:09:23	52797	-	07:19:39	51312	-
5	13:30:07	66540	-	13:44:49	64811	-

🎅 Have a Wonderful Holiday Season, Everyone! 🎅

Footnotes

1. cargo run -p day** --release, does not include the reading of the input file but includes parsing. ↩ ↩²