Re: Faster std::map?
On 2007-08-21 12:21, Erik Wikstr?m wrote:
On 2007-08-21 11:07, hg@x-formation.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm reading a sequence of 123000 records from a database which needs
to be indexed into a std::map for further processing.
Currently I've found that this process can take up to 30 seconds to
perform on a modern system with 3400 MHz cpu and 1 gb ram. I would
like to cut this time down.
I've verified the actual data reading part to take less then 10
seconds which means that the map is taking about 2/3 of the time.
while (R.Read())
{
MonthlyStat.m_UsageMap[R.GetString(0)].m_Map1[(time_t)
R.GetInt(1)] = R.GetInt(2);
MonthlyStat.m_UsageMap[R.GetString(0)].m_Map2[(time_t)
R.GetInt(1)] = R.GetInt(4);
MonthlyStat.m_UsageMap[R.GetString(0)].m_Map3[(time_t)
R.GetInt(1)] = R.GetInt(3);
}
You can probably get a small speed-up by caching the result of
'MonthlyStat.m_UsageMap[R.GetString(0)]', so something like
while (R.Read())
{
std::map<time_t, int> m& = MonthlyStat.m_UsageMap[R.GetString(0)];
m[(time_t) R.GetInt(1)] = R.GetInt(2);
m[(time_t) R.GetInt(1)] = R.GetInt(3);
m[(time_t) R.GetInt(1)] = R.GetInt(4);
}
That was a bit off, but I think you get the picture.
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Erik Wikstr?m
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