Re: GCA0BD7 - (Not a day without country challenge) - Bug in current script? One username always times out

TLDR: "Merelä Matti" times out (tried four times on two different dates myself).

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Thanks to Hügh, there is a script with optimized algorithm for this challenge (see https://project-gc.com/forum/read?11,71003,71045#msg-71045 for previous discussion) which has worked perfectly well until now.

Recently a local cacher who had visited the challenge complained that the checker gave no results. I tested and after trying three times yesterday and once today, I confirm that executing the script with user
"Merelä Matti" seems to run until timeout. Whether this is due to high number of finds (30 000+) I don't know.

Would it be possible for someone to give it a look and see if there is a way to fix this issue?

Hello sm07,

Unfortunately I do not have the time at the moment to further optimize the script I wrote for you originally.

I can however offer https://project-gc.com/Challenges//78569, which confirms that Merelä Matti does not qualify for this Challenge. The output is not as friendly, however, since it is (to my knowledge) impossible to specify a sorting order for the columns.

Thanks,
Hügh

Hi,

thanks for a quick answer. I'll share this information for the user and add link to cache page as alternative checker (with more information available). I'm sure this suffices.