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Altering Input Creation? #7

Closed narobertson42 closed 7 years ago

narobertson42 commented 7 years ago

Are we allowed to override CreateInput in user_<puzzle_name>_.hpp ? Given you are only measuring the wall-clock execution time of Execute, surely it would make sense to build helpful data structures in CreateInput

m8pple commented 7 years ago

I'm afraid not - if you need to build up structures, it should be charged to your account, not the creators.

Each created puzzle follows the file-format for that puzzle, which is essentially an API. So I won't be calling your CreateInput, I'll only be calling your Execute. So it would be a bit like trying to add extra information into a jpeg file - yes, you can do it, but any jpegs you get from anyone else won't contain that info.

Something to think about is how much time creating those data structures takes. Depending on the problem size, does it always make sense?