[sublimefire]

Did a bit of soul searching and manually optimised to 1087 but I give up. What is the number we are chasing here? IMO I would not join a company giving such a vague problem because you can feel really bad afterwards, especially if this does not open a door to the next stage of the interview. As an alternative we could all instead focus on a real kernel and improve it :)

[trishume]

Author of the take-home here: That's quite a good cycle count, substantially better than Claude's, you should email it to [e-mail].