I just tried my first problem on Codewars and realised: This solution feels like cheating

    • floorjam@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I first did something with findfirst, which needed some bounds checks. Then I saw another answer and they used searchsortedfirst which is just it … Even the documentation reads like the problem description

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          1 year ago

          Naahh… searchsortedfirst is simply faster than other search algorithms (in this specific case). Extremely useful in many applications.It ist there because Julia cares about efficiency

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            1 year ago

            This helped me realize how much this aligns with my problems (and I guess the spirit of this test problem). Sometimes you have special knowledge of your data and can use much more efficient functions that are just there in Julia.