Re: Slow manual 'garbage collection' in C++ ??

From:
iu2 <israelu@elbit.co.il>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:43:43 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 17, 9:46 pm, brey_maastri...@hotmail.com wrote:

Hello guys,

I really need your help. I'm a Java programmer and right now I'm
experiencing a huge problem with C++.

In a scientific computation I need to store a lot of Point objects
(which have an array of doubles and 2 ints as fields).
To quickly search among all these points I have designed a Hashtable
to store them; a bucket/vector of buckets/vectors.
The hashtable is filled with Points objects in a while loop.

This whole procedure again is repeated a lot of times in a for loop.
At the end of every run of this for loop the Hashtable has to be
emptied in order to prevent for memroy leaks: this means looping
through every vector in the main vector of the hashtable and delete
every Point object manually.
Later on, this C++ computation will be compiled under Matlab to use it
over there.

But now the problem is:

My C++ programm is very fast without emptying the hashtable. But then
I have a huge memory leak; and my swapfile grows enormouly.
With emptying the hashtable my C++ programm becomes dramatically
slow.....even slower than my Java programm.

So the question is: What to do now ?? It cannot be the case that
preventing a memory leak, slows down the computations ??

Kind regards,
Brey


You don't need to write your own hash.
Try using STL. I think an STL 'multiset' can store objects in an RB-
tree fashion. When the multiset goes out of scope it automatically
frees all the memory.
You will need to overload the '<' operator to allow the multiset
comare the nodes in the RB tree.

Here is an example:

#include <set>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

// define the Point struct
struct Point {
    double ar[10];
    int a, b;

    Point(int x, int y) {
        a = x;
        b = y;
    }
};

// define the '<' operator, this definition relates to the 'a' field
bool operator < (const Point &p1, const Point &p2) {
    return p1.a < p2.a;
}

int main()
{
    multiset<Point> points;

    // insert some points
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        cout << "Inserting point with a = " << 10 - i << endl;
        points.insert(Point(10 - i, 0));
        points.insert(Point(10 - i, 0)); // add each item twice..., just to
see this works
    }

    cout << endl;

    // now scan the set
    multiset<Point>::iterator it;
    for (it = points.begin(); it != points.end(); it++) {
        cout << "Reading point: a = " << it->a << ", b = " << it->b << endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

The output is:

Inserting point with a = 10
Inserting point with a = 9
Inserting point with a = 8
Inserting point with a = 7
Inserting point with a = 6
Inserting point with a = 5
Inserting point with a = 4
Inserting point with a = 3
Inserting point with a = 2
Inserting point with a = 1

Reading point: a = 1, b = 0
Reading point: a = 1, b = 0
Reading point: a = 2, b = 0
Reading point: a = 2, b = 0
Reading point: a = 3, b = 0
Reading point: a = 3, b = 0
Reading point: a = 4, b = 0
Reading point: a = 4, b = 0
Reading point: a = 5, b = 0
Reading point: a = 5, b = 0
Reading point: a = 6, b = 0
Reading point: a = 6, b = 0
Reading point: a = 7, b = 0
Reading point: a = 7, b = 0
Reading point: a = 8, b = 0
Reading point: a = 8, b = 0
Reading point: a = 9, b = 0
Reading point: a = 9, b = 0
Reading point: a = 10, b = 0
Reading point: a = 10, b = 0

See how the numbers are ordered from least to most, although inserted
from most to least.

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