I assume this is min primary given those minimal conditions:
I am puling imput at the maximum possible speed
There is no waste and there is no metalicity lost
The solve loops
This weeks puzzle really was what to do with the waste in both metrics huh,
for this i really had to juice up all that tin for it's quicksilver.
I was considering a 5 inputs 3 outputs kind of solve in the idea that it might yield even smaller instruction counts but i just couldn't conceptualize how it would work oh well i did a pseudo 4r + waste management approach since I found it much more apprehensible, tho the fact that waste has to be handled in 5 tape loops was really fucky, many times i was like why can't it have been 6 or even 4 since those could have worked much better with hex arms or solves that looped in 2 tape loops, but yeah happy that i only have 5 arms on tracks and the rest are hex arms, also that only 4 arms have 4 instructions and the rest are 3 instruction must mean that this is pretty decent.
I needed the arms on tracks to do corrections timing s to fit the 5 tape loop cadence also arm 8 and 17 are multitasking which i am proud of, also arm 17 does some funky moves.