The code is very inefficient to say the least. I made some modifications (diverging further from the "functional" nature, if you could call it that) and as you

The code is very inefficient to say the least. I made some modifications (diverging further from the "functional" nature, if you could call it that) and as you can see it is much faster[0]. Output: $ node new-magicForest.js 2017 2055 2006 total forests: 6128 { goats: 0, wolves: 0, lions: 4023 } total time: 20ms [0] https://gist.github.com/chapel/1c038b2bf64b3037aaea https://gist.github.com/chapel/1c038b2bf64b3037aaea