Perl Advent Calendar 2024
It was Christmas Eve, and Santa was facing a nightmare. The sleigh’s new GPS system, upgraded for the first time in centuries from following the Star of Bethlehem, was malfunctioning. As Santa checked the screen, the map was a chaotic mess — locations were wrong, some coordinates did not make sense, and the sleigh was heading straight into the mountains instead of over the City of New Orleans!
"We can't afford this!" Santa shouted. "We’ve got billions of presents to deliver, and the system's down. And I want some gumbo!"
"Santa, we can fix it," Jingles, the lead elf, said with a frantic smile. "We just need more computing power. If we use OpenMP, we can parallelize the calculations and solve this quickly."
Santa stared. “What are you talking about, Jingles? I'm a giant elf, not a Scottish engineer on a television show for nerds!”
