increase neighborhood time limit to 120s #380
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This PR increases the time limit for Java Lab neighborhood levels from 90 sec to 120 sec.
This is in response to a request from a user who wrote a program that took more than 90 seconds to run to completion at this level for which students were assigned to create a design on a 32x32 grid:
jira ticket - Java Lab - Increase Neighborhood time limit to 2 minutes
Slack discussion
Before the time limit was increased:
After the time limit was increased: (~ 1 min 45 sec to complete)
Follow-up
There was discussion in the Slack thread that a longer-term solution is to try to optimize the way signals are sent.