The most efficient way for fill a vector from an array?

From:
towi <towitowi@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Sun, 8 Mar 2009 04:41:42 CST
Message-ID:
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Hi,

I wonder, what is the most efficient STL way to move the values from
an array into a vector of the same kind?

* "move" means, that I dont care about the array afterwards.
* It should be a platform independent way, probably a way how it could
be done
   with general C++ features and STL methods if the implementors chose
to implement it.

My general idea would be that there might be something like
(pseudocode):

   std::vector<int> vec;
   int arr[10] = { 1,2,3, 2,3,4, 3,4,5, 10} ;
   std::move( vec.begin(), vec.end(), arr, arr+10); // vec := arr

I am trying to find the best line[s] for my invended "std::move()". I
imagined, there might be something in the STL that would have allowed
by design their implementors to do some very careful pointer-magic, if
they choose to, like that pseudocode specialization here:

template<>
   move<T>(vector<T>::interator dst_start, vector<T>::iterator
dst_stop, T* src_start, T* src_stop)
{
   if(//dst_start and dst_stop cover the whole of the dst//) {
     //set the internal data-pointer of trg to src_start//
   } else {
     std::swap_ranges(...);
   }
}

Maybe there is a general performance-cheap solution I can not see -- a
way the designers of the STL or C++ thought, they leave the library or
language implementors the "door" open for good performance tweaking,
if they set their mind to it.

The hard fact reason for my question is, that I want to read a file
that I could do with a single read()-call into an array[], but I want
it to go into a vector<>, instead. And because it's huge, I want to do
it without twice the memory and without an unneccessary copy.
Maybe what I am asking is related to how to make vector ROMable?

Thanks in advance,
tschau, towi.

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