Re: Is there a faster way to fetch data from stl map?

From:
tni <nobody@example.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:24:32 +0100
Message-ID:
<gj3lj7$cm7$02$1@news.t-online.com>
Ian Collins wrote:

tni wrote:

[Is there any reason for not quoting context?]

Is there any reason you are not using a hash map? Unless you need the
the keys in sort order, there is no reason to prefer the std::map. I
would be surprised, if a decent hash map wasn't 10x faster than std::map
for your amount of data.


With an integer key? From where did you draw that conclusion?


With GCC 4.1:

Hash map time: 485 0
Std map time: 5656 0

(I'm assuming the keys are pretty much sequential.)

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#include <google/dense_hash_map>
#include <map>
#include <vector>
#include <time.h>
#include <iostream>

struct hash {
     size_t operator()(int a) const {
         a = (a ^ 61) ^ (a >> 16);
         a = a + (a << 3);
         a = a ^ (a >> 4);
         a = a * 0x27d4eb2d;
         a = a ^ (a >> 15);
         return a;
     }
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
     int elems = 1000000;
     int loop_count = 100;
     std::vector<int> data_vec;
     std::vector<int> keys;
     data_vec.resize(200);

     google::dense_hash_map<int, std::vector<int>, hash > hash_map;
     hash_map.set_empty_key(-1);

     std::map<int, std::vector<int> > std_map;

     for(int i = 0; i < elems; i++) {
         int key = i;
         keys.push_back(key);
         hash_map[key] = data_vec;
         std_map[key] = data_vec;
     }

     int a = 0;
     clock_t start_time = clock();
     for(int j = 0; j < loop_count; j++) {
         for(int i = 0; i < elems; i++) {
             int key = keys[j];
             std::vector<int>& data = (*hash_map.find(key)).second;
             a += data[0];
         }
     }
     clock_t stop_time = clock();
     std::cout << "Hash map time: " << (stop_time - start_time) << " "
<< a << "\n";

     start_time = clock();
     for(int j = 0; j < loop_count; j++) {
         for(int i = 0; i < elems; i++) {
             int key = keys[j];
             std::vector<int>& data = (*std_map.find(key)).second;
             a += data[0];
         }
     }
     stop_time = clock();
     std::cout << "Std map time: " << (stop_time - start_time) << " " <<
a << "\n";
}

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