Well I did the same as Ivo, just kept running the 2 jobs in the same loop.
I think you can trade info with globals as well.

The breaks are hard to deal with indeed. I have 1h tops and then I have to take care of the kids. After that I have to hope that I find some time at work.

I was 11 seconds faster on part 2 then you today dmitry. That was close.
I think I could have been faster if I didnt brute force it. Once you get a cycle I guess you can calculate where you should end up. I just did all 1B iterations :p

My best result for the leaderboard was today:

Day       Time  Rank  Score       Time  Rank  Score
 15   00:10:36   312      0   00:13:22   198      0

And t hat means I am still only top 200. I was 4 minutes to slow.
How close have you guys come to top 100?

EDIT: I could have been 1 minute faster btw if I didnt submit the result of the test case as the first result. Waiting one minute doing nothing sucks.

Jozef, Have you allready joined our intersytems private leaderboard? the code is: 130669-ab1f69bf

(you can join multiple btw if you are allready in a leaderboard)

That is fine for me.

The only thing that we will miss a bit is the dirty code in case you clean in it up. But I can live with that. 
I learned a lot by watching the other repositories :)

Can you make it a requirement to share your code?

That way, we can learn something from other people and how they solve things.

It is not that the task was so difficult, for me it was more that debugging it was very complicated.
That and understanding the assignment was not easy for me toady.
 

There are some videos on https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/ doing speed runs.
They are mostly using python wich is very good at mapping functions to inputs.

some playlists below:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqhjTZS4RhCe-TMJlGvlXu7X_NmZaUtDe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCnTOC5l7TY&list=PLqLJjAz977SsDLGLmDx5sZcyD4JkmVxO0&index=2

Oke,
The guys on the leaderboard are pretty insane.

I got up 2 mornings at 6am. (Thats when it starts for me.)
Started programming but being done and making no mistakes in 10 minutes or less to get on the leaderboard is just nuts.

I implemented a simple hash function for it. I just created a new word from all the letters in alphabetical order.
If it's the same word. tadaaa. Code is found in my bitbucket above.

Not getting up at 5 am here either.

But seeing different solutions in cache is worth it.

They will still be there on christmass :p

Where is Danny when you need him? I guess he got a bit tired by doing 2016 one :) 

My solutions are here: https://bitbucket.org/bertsarens/advent2017/

I joined it :)

PS.: you can have multiple private leaderboards, in case you wonder.