Re: Adding two STL vectors

From:
"Manish" <marora@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
23 Feb 2007 06:18:31 -0800
Message-ID:
<1172240311.256175.150780@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 23, 8:40 am, Marcin Gil <marcin....@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

Chris Roth wrote:

vector<double> v1;
vector<double> v2;

What is the best way to add v1 to v2? (v2 = v1+v2 that is)? Simply
iterate through, or can an algorithm like transform be used? I have used
transform to add a single value to a vector, but not two vectors together.


Single value: vector::push_back should be ok :)
To join two vectors you could use

vector::insert(), like here

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
        vector<int> v1;
        vector<int> v2;

        v1.push_back(5);
        v2.push_back(6);
        v2.push_back(7);

        v1.insert(v1.end(), v2.begin(), v2.end());
        copy(v1.begin(), v1.end(), ostream_iterator<int>(cout, " "));

        return 0;

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I wonder how transform works, since it seems to be more
efficient(faster) than vector insert?

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    if (argc < 2) {
        cout << "invalid number of args: " << argc << endl;
        exit(1);
    }

    vector<int> v1;
    vector<int> v2;

    v1.push_back(5);
    v2.push_back(6);
    v2.push_back(7);

    for (int i = 0; i < atoi(argv[1]); i++) {
        // Alternative 1
        //v1.insert(v1.end(), v2.begin(), v2.end());

        // Alternative 2
        v2.resize(v1.size());
        std::transform(v1.begin(), v1.end(), v2.begin(), v2.begin(),
plus<int>());
    }

    return 0;
}

Alternative 1
time a.out 100000

real 0m0.52s
user 0m0.48s
sys 0m0.01s

Alternative 2
time a.out 100000

real 0m0.35s
user 0m0.30s
sys 0m0.02s

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