diff --git a/2023/src/bin/day08.rs b/2023/src/bin/day08.rs
index daa0105..ace2368 100644
--- a/2023/src/bin/day08.rs
+++ b/2023/src/bin/day08.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 #![feature(test)]
 extern crate test;
 
+use std::hint::unreachable_unchecked;
+
 use aoc2023::{boilerplate, common::*};
-use fnv::FnvHashMap as HashMap;
 
 const DAY: usize = 8;
-type Parsed<'a> = (Vec<Direction>, HashMap<&'a str, [&'a str; 2]>);
+type Parsed<'a> = (Vec<Direction>, Vec<u16>, [[u16; 2]; LUT_SIZE]);
 
 #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Copy, Clone, Hash)]
 enum Direction {
@@ -13,6 +14,12 @@ enum Direction {
     Right = 1,
 }
 
+const LUT_SIZE: usize = 27483; // pack("ZZZ") + 1
+
+fn pack(s: &[u8; 3]) -> u16 {
+    s.iter().cloned().fold(0, |acc, n| (acc << 5) + (n as u16 & 0b11111))
+}
+
 fn parse_input(raw: &str) -> Parsed {
     let (directions, map) = raw.split_once("\n\n").unwrap();
     let directions = directions
@@ -20,27 +27,44 @@ fn parse_input(raw: &str) -> Parsed {
         .map(|i| match i {
             b'L' => Direction::Left,
             b'R' => Direction::Right,
-            _ => unreachable!(),
+            _ => unsafe { unreachable_unchecked() },
         })
         .collect();
-    let map = map.lines().map(|l| (&l[0..=2], [&l[7..=9], &l[12..=14]])).collect();
-    (directions, map)
+    let mut lut = [[0u16, 0]; LUT_SIZE];
+    let mut indices = Vec::new();
+    for x in map.lines().map(|l| l.as_bytes()) {
+        unsafe {
+            let idx = pack(&*x[0..=2].as_ptr().cast());
+            let left = pack(&*x[7..=9].as_ptr().cast());
+            let right = pack(&*x[12..=14].as_ptr().cast());
+            lut[idx as usize] = [left, right];
+            if x[2] == b'A' {
+                indices.push(idx);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    (directions, indices, lut)
 }
 
-fn steps_until((directions, map): &Parsed, start: &str, target: &str) -> usize {
+#[inline]
+fn ends_with(packed: u16, suffix: u8) -> bool {
+    packed & 0b11111 == suffix as u16 & 0b11111
+}
+
+fn steps_until((directions, _, map): &Parsed, start: u16) -> usize {
     directions
         .iter()
         .cycle()
         .scan(start, |pos, dir| {
-            let next = map.get(pos)?[*dir as usize];
-            (!next.ends_with(target)).then(|| *pos = next)
+            let next = map[*pos as usize][*dir as usize];
+            (!ends_with(next, b'Z')).then(|| *pos = next)
         })
         .count()
         + 1
 }
 
 fn part1(parsed: &Parsed) -> usize {
-    steps_until(parsed, "AAA", "ZZZ")
+    steps_until(parsed, pack(&[b'A'; 3]))
 }
 
 // I’m honestly not sure why this works. It seems each path only has a single ghost node, and that
@@ -48,7 +72,7 @@ fn part1(parsed: &Parsed) -> usize {
 // I assume this holds true for other inputs (it can’t have been random),
 // but I don’t see it anywhere in the task and only found out by experimentation.
 fn part2(parsed: &Parsed) -> usize {
-    parsed.1.keys().filter(|start| start.ends_with("A")).fold(1, |acc, n| lcm(acc, steps_until(parsed, n, "Z")))
+    parsed.1.iter().filter(|&&n| ends_with(n, b'A')).fold(1, |acc, n| lcm(acc, steps_until(parsed, *n)))
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
@@ -75,5 +99,5 @@ ZZZ = (ZZZ, ZZZ)",
     },
     bench1 == 12083,
     bench2 == 13385272668829,
-    bench_parse: |(v, m): &Parsed| { assert_eq!(m["AAA"], ["MJJ", "QBJ"]); (v.len(), v[0]) } => (281, Direction::Left),
+    bench_parse: |(v, v2, m): &Parsed| { assert_eq!(m[0], [0, 0]); (v.len(), v2.len(), v[0]) } => (281, 6, Direction::Left),
 }