I think you probably don't go and look for feedback for problem 78 on Project Euler, so I decided to give you one here :)

Your generator is quite impressive but it is a bit overkill in this case. The problem statement requires divisibility by 1_000_000, which means that you can do all sums and differences modulo 1_000_000 and still get a good answer; moreover, you can cache values of p(n) modulo 1_000_000. As a consequence, you can work with "regular" integers and get rid of bigint, which slows you down.

In my solution, I am a bit less optimised than you, because I'm calculating pentas all the time; in any case, it runs in about 19 seconds on Centrino 1.6GHz. If you're interested, I've put it into Project Euler forum entry #78 (I'm polettix).

I also saw that you didn't publish this code, but I think it could be useful - who knows? :)

Flavio
perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re: RFC: Integer::Partition::Unrestricted by polettix
in thread RFC: Integer::Partition::Unrestricted by Limbic~Region

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