Yes, in fact this will be one of the first things you will want to do.

Anyone know how to actually enable this for, say, v8? I’ve debugged Chrome compiled code without symbols and it’s miserable and I’d really like to not have to do that

I remember tinkering with the Chrome build system, and you can make it emit debug symbols but the compile time and memory use goes through the roof.

I work with CEF, and Spotify provides builds for the source, which have debug symbols, I think it's much more practical to use that.

The solution was explicitly graded on creativity fwiw

Continuous

You can get pretty far without needing to care about this fwiw

Not far enough if you're turning cash into waste heat with GPUs :)

4 hours

You make it faster

Fewer instructions doesn't mean it's faster. It can be faster but it's not guaranteed in general. Obvious counterexample is single threaded vs multi-threaded code. Single threaded code will have fewer instructions but won't necessarily be faster.

It does in this case; you can read the assignment to see that it is all single-threaded

4 hours but AI help is (was?) allowed. I assume it was retired because of Opus basically oneshotting it

It’s some useless problem like a random tree walk or something like that, the actual algorithm is not particularly important to the problem

Yeah, I assume it was partly chosen since the problem structure provides some convenient hooks for selectively introducing subtle and less subtle inefficiencies in the baseline algorithm that match common optimization patterns.

This is explicitly not Leetcode, in fact its goal is to attract optimizers