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

    • @MatFi@lemmy.thias.xyz
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      22 years 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

      • @floorjamOP
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        12 years 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.