Re: C++ programming challenge

From:
Bart van Ingen Schenau <bart@ingen.ddns.info>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:31:17 +0200
Message-ID:
<3661865.WhofvFQs4T@ingen.ddns.info>
Peter Jansson wrote:

Dear news group,

I have created a small programming challenge for those of you who are
interested in challenging your Standard C++ programming skills. The
challenge is about counting character frequency in large texts,
perhaps useful for spam filtering or classical crypto analysis. You
can read more about it here:

http://blog.p-jansson.com/2009/06/programming-challenge-letter-

frequency.html

With kind regards,
Peter Jansson


Lets see how the std algorithms measure up to the rest (only tested on
its own source so far):

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <numeric>
#include <map>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
#include <time.h>

struct accum_original
{
  std::map<char, long> counts;
  long total;
  accum_original() : counts(), total(0) {}
  void count_char(char c)
  {
    total++;
    counts[tolower((unsigned char)c)]++;
  }
  const std::map<char, long>& getCounts()
  {
    return counts;
  }
  long getTotal()
  {
    return total;
  }
};

struct accum_fast
{
  struct data {
    std::map<char, long> counts;
    long total;
    int refcount;
    data() : counts(), total(0), refcount(1) {}
  }* payload;
  accum_fast() : payload(new data) {}
  accum_fast(const accum_fast& other) : payload(other.payload) {
payload->refcount++; }
  ~accum_fast() { if (--payload->refcount == 0) { delete payload; } }
  void swap(accum_fast& other)
  {
    data* temp(other.payload);
    other.payload = payload;
    payload = temp;
  }
  accum_fast& operator=(accum_fast rhs)
  {
    swap(rhs);
    return *this;
  }
  void count_char(char c)
  {
    payload->total++;
    payload->counts[tolower((unsigned char)c)]++;
  }
  const std::map<char, long>& getCounts()
  {
    return payload->counts;
  }
  long getTotal()
  {
    return payload->total;
  }
};
typedef accum_fast accum;

accum count_chars(accum acc, char c)
{
  acc.count_char(c);
  return acc;
}

struct scaler
{
  long total;
  scaler(long total_) : total(total_) {}
  std::pair<const char, double> operator()(std::pair<const char, long>
value)
  {
    return std::pair<const char, double>(value.first,
(100.0*value.second)/total);
  }
};

namespace std {
ostream& operator<<(ostream& os, const pair<const char, double>& value)
{
  os << '\'' << value.first << "' " << value.second << "%\n";
  return os;
}
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  clock_t time1, time2;
  accum acc;

  if (argc < 2)
  {
    time1 = clock();
    acc = std::accumulate(std::istream_iterator<char>(std::cin),
std::istream_iterator<char>(), acc, count_chars);
  }
  else
  {
    time1 = clock();
    std::ifstream file(argv[1]);
    acc = std::accumulate(std::istream_iterator<char>(file),
std::istream_iterator<char>(), acc, count_chars);
  }

  std::transform(acc.getCounts().begin(), acc.getCounts().end(),
                 std::ostream_iterator<std::pair<const char, double>

(std::cout, ""),

                 scaler(acc.getTotal()));
  time2 = clock();
  std::cout << "Time taken: " << (time2 - time1) << " clock ticks = " <<
(time2 - time1)*1.0/CLOCKS_PER_SEC << " seconds" << std::endl;
}

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