Hello! Thanks for playing. The delay is not deliberate - though I admit seeing the process occur over time rather than instantaneously is stylistically valuable to me, it needn’t last longer than a few seconds to achieve that goal - the time the algorithm takes is a function of it being a first-draft implementation that I basically finished just in time to submit… which means slapdash shortcut and unnecessary overhead.
Do you have a link for the other entry you’re talking about? The only other one I’ve seen in the jam was written in JS - https://axeladanger.itch.io/pseudo-wfc-map-generator
Not comfortable posting source for this atm I’m afraid - it’s too messy for my standards. But I will try to do so at some point - especially as one of my goals with the project was to help folks have an easier time figuring out the algorithm than I did!