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Ah I didn't actually follow the link to the github repo. I don't think that percludes pre-processing the input into something that needs no parsing, however, or to spawn a background daemon that prefetches everything in the right order.

The first run is indeed runtime, not build time, so technically I think I still count with pre-computation, sending that to the daemon (or just stashing it somewhere in /tmp, or even crazier patching the jarfile), and just printing it back out on the second run onwards.




> I don't think that percludes pre-processing the input into something that needs no parsing

Why not preprocess it into a file that contains the answer? (-: My read of the description was just: you're meant to read the file as part of the run.




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