Shift Efficiency

[warm sorrel]

Wondering if this is the most efficient way to do shifts, since it feels very brute-forcey

[fiery kiln]

No, you can do a whole lot better than that, but it would require quite a bit more room than this.

[warm sorrel]

care to give hints, perhaps?

[thorny moat]

Do you recall the level "Double the Number"?

[fiery kiln]

• ||What have you done in the level Double the number?||
• ||You effectively have ~2x the number of nescessary 1-bit switches (assuming that you break up each 8-bit one)||

[warm sorrel]

ah

so basically, just trading gate efficiency for space efficiency

[thorny moat]

Instead of ||8 shifters each shifting by 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 7, can you do it with fewer||?

[fiery kiln]

And there is less delay in the circuits that both me & Gelthor are suggesting.

[warm sorrel]

ooh
||I can use each bit to determine if I have a 1 bit shift, 2 bit shift and 4 bit shift||

[thorny moat]

All that said, as a general rule we recommend progressing the level map rather than optimising them before you unlock the scoring mechanic, which provides metrics and a useful tool.

[warm sorrel]

I was just curious since all the other levels I did had more elegant solutions while this one felt

extremely brute forcy

which threw me off

[vestal goblet]

i just used muxes, splitters, and mergers for some reason. might try optimizing mine to the max bc bored

[zinc hemlock]

Knowing that multiplying by 2 is just a bit shift is impressive, but knowing that a bit shift is multiplying by 2 is not something I have ever seen