I solved the first couple from a previous year's in pure x86 as a means of making them more interesting. A few hundred lines of terrible, terrible x86. I was

I solved the first couple from a previous year's in pure x86 as a means of making them more interesting. A few hundred lines of terrible, terrible x86. I was amused when it performed even worse than expected - thanks to the lack of console buffering when I eschewed linking in the C stdlib (I forget if I instead invoked WriteConsole or what...)