[VA] SRC #016 - Pi Day 2024 Special

[DavidM]

(03-17-2024 08:59 PM)Gerson W. Barbosa Wrote:  ...Overall about 50% faster than my first program, nothing that compares to your 18+ speedup when compared to my optimized program, though. Well done!

I would submit that this is a good example of when code performance overshadows code brevity. Yes, my program is a bit bulkier than the others, but I believe the performance is more important here than shaving off a few more bytes of code.

That said, I did intentionally decide to use COERCE2 instead of two individual COERCE steps. The COERCE2 version is very slightly slower, but I was willing to pay the ~1 second runtime price for the shorter version.

If the past is any predictor of the future, I'm sure that Valentin's version will be speedy in addition to the already-published 102 byte count.