comment on

... I'm interested to see how others go about it.

Here's one. It's not fast, but it makes up for it with cuteness :)

#!/usr/bin/perl

print $_ = <<'' =~ tr/./ /r; # test case, dots only for layout
...........
.......#...
........#..
.###..###..
...........
...........

my $gap = /..\n/ ? qr/.{$-[0]}/s : die "too small";
my $neighborhood = qr/(?<=(...) $gap (.)) . (?=(.) $gap (...))/x;

for my $generation ( 2 .. 5 )
  {
  s/$neighborhood/ substr "  $&#     ", "$1$2$3$4" =~ tr|#||, 1 /ge;
  print;
  }
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In reply to Re: High Performance Game of Life by tybalt89
in thread High Performance Game of Life by eyepopslikeamosquito

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