Day 9: Disk Fragmenter
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Haskell
This was fun, I optimized away quite a bit, as a result it now runs in 0.04s for both parts together on my 2016 laptop.
In part 1 I just run through the array with a start- and an end-index whilst summing up the checksum the entire time.
In part 2 I build up Binary Trees of Free Space which allow me to efficiently search for and insert free spaces when I start traversing the disk from the back. Marking the moved files as free is omitted because the checksum is calculated for every file that is moved or not moved directly.
Code