Hi everyone, I’ve been looking forward to the Advent of Code 2021 for a long time now, especially as I’ve decided to write my solutions for this year’s coming month of challenges in Prolog! Last year, I was having such a fun (and busy) time around Christmas that I forgot to finish the final two da…

Two things I might try if this were my problem. concurrent_forall/3 ( ref ) arg/3 - For a practical and simple usage of arg/3 see dynamic array ( code ) ( ref )

Awesome! … Here we go, down the rabbit hole of multithreaded Prolog :laughing:

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"Hexlife" in SWI Prolog — critique very much welcome!

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EricGT November 18, 2021, 9:48pm 2

Two things I might try if this were my problem.

concurrent_forall/3 (ref)
arg/3 - For a practical and simple usage of arg/3 see dynamic array (code) (ref)

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