Re: std::set: gratuitous comparisons?
Paul Brettschneider wrote:
I wrote a little code snippet (see end of posting) to see what kind of
comparisons are made when inserting into a std::set container. The
members are a class wrapped around std::string with an internal
counter to differentiate between multiple instantiations of the class
(but only the string value is compared). For the insertion
sequence "A", "B", "C", "B", "A" I get the following comparisons (on
g++
4.1):
A1
B2
lt:B2 vs. A1:0
lt:A1 vs. B2:1
lt:B2 vs. A1:0
Huh? This is strange for two reasons: first of all, if "A" < "B" ==
true, then "B" < "A" *must* be false. And secondly, "B" < "A" was
already tested before.
If you do it in debug, it could be verifying that your 'less than'
operator is actually providing the correct strict weak ordering.
Beyond that, I don't know, could be a QoI issue.
[..]
V
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