graveler-softlockpicking-years-wasted-calculator

This repo is a short and sweet response to Austins most recent video 'The Science of Soft Lock Picking Pokemon' available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8C8dHQE2Ro

Programs

time to record execution time

rustup to install cargo, and all other tools used by the rust ecosystem

cargo to compile the program

Building

cargo build --release

the built program will be stored under target/release or target/debug if you forgot to use the --release flag (not recommended as there will be a significant performance hit due to additional debugging and status information, as well as additional runtime verification of the code)

you can also replace build with run to run the program after the compilation process is done, however this may interfere with any external timing software such as gnu time (see the Programs section) since it will include the compilation time and however long it takes for cargo to start the built program

Features

You can disable default features to switch to less performant code like so

cargo build --release --no-default-features

however this will require you provide a seed to seed the manual random implementation

cargo build --release --no-default-features -- 789124

to enable specific features just use the -F flag like so

cargo build --release --no-default-features -F auto_thread_count -- 789124

or

cargo build --release --no-default-features -F auto_thread_count,rust_random

Timings

1 billion

comparable to the python implementation: 39:12.67

multithreading and a better random library: 8:51.31

1 million

comparable to the python implementation: 0:04.40

multithreading and a better random library: 0:01.00