From de1e4b5b4f3ac8df80a5bc91cd2e905be471049e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyler Hallada <tyler@hallada.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 22:46:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] day03: simplify digit parsing and remove invalid character
 handling

Weirdly improves speed of part1 but hurts speed of part2 :shrug:
---
 README.md        |  2 +-
 src/day03/mod.rs | 28 +++-------------------------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5006c27..52b72a8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,4 +34,4 @@ Timings are given as: [lower-bound **best-estimate** upper-bound]
 |-----|--------|--------|
 | 01  | [101.34 µs **101.95 µs** 102.61 µs] | [105.90 µs **106.40 µs** 106.95 µs] |
 | 02  | [2.0990 ms **2.1113 ms** 2.1236 ms] | [2.0954 ms **2.1055 ms** 2.1157 ms] |
-| 03  | [40.624 µs **40.836 µs** 41.063 µs]] | [165.81 µs **166.73 µs** 167.61 µs] |
+| 03  | [38.717 µs **39.002 µs** 39.311 µs] | [175.35 µs **176.59 µs** 177.92 µs] |
diff --git a/src/day03/mod.rs b/src/day03/mod.rs
index 67bef69..f732048 100644
--- a/src/day03/mod.rs
+++ b/src/day03/mod.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use color_eyre::{Result, eyre::eyre};
+use color_eyre::Result;
 use tracing::{debug, instrument};
 
 pub const INPUT: &str = include_str!("input/input.txt");
@@ -20,20 +20,10 @@ impl Default for Battery {
 
 fn largest_output_joltage<const N: usize>(input: &str) -> Result<u64> {
     let mut output_joltage: u64 = 0;
-    for (line_num, line) in input.trim().split('\n').enumerate() {
+    for line in input.trim().split('\n') {
         let mut batteries: [Battery; N] = [Battery::default(); N];
         let line_len = line.len();
-        for (column, c) in line.bytes().enumerate() {
-            let joltage = (c as char).to_digit(10).ok_or_else(|| {
-                eyre!(
-                    "Invalid character '{}' at line {}, column {}:\n  {}\n  {}^",
-                    c as char,
-                    line_num + 1,
-                    column + 1,
-                    line,
-                    " ".repeat(column)
-                )
-            })? as u8;
+        for (column, joltage) in line.bytes().map(|c| c - b'0').enumerate() {
             let min = N.saturating_sub(line_len - column);
             for i in min..N {
                 if joltage > batteries[i].joltage {
@@ -70,18 +60,6 @@ mod tests {
 
     const TEST_INPUT1: &str = include_str!("input/test1.txt");
 
-    #[test]
-    fn test_invalid_character_error() {
-        let input = "1234\n5678\n1234x678\n9012";
-        let result = part1(input);
-        assert!(result.is_err());
-        let error_msg = result.unwrap_err().to_string();
-        assert_eq!(
-            error_msg,
-            "Invalid character 'x' at line 3, column 5:\n  1234x678\n      ^"
-        );
-    }
-
     #[test]
     fn test_part1() {
         assert_eq!(part1(TEST_INPUT1).unwrap(), 357);