The performance comparisons among std::list deque vector

From:
"mos" <mmosquito@163.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:05:20 +0800
Message-ID:
<h9c3dt$fab$1@www.shinco.com>
Hi!
    For a long time I am confused about the performance of list deque
vector, I had thought that each of them have their strong point and weak
point also. So we should choose container carefully. Some rules may like: if
there is insert or remove in the middle, no vector.
    These rules is not pragmatic sometime I realize, finally I do a test
below(vc 2008 sp1, define /D _SECURE_SCL=0 ). If the element < 10000
(normally it is the real case), the vector is much better than list or deque
even insert or remove in the middle.
    I think this is because memory alloc and free is much cost than the
algorithm O(0) or O(n), Am I right? or something missed?

mos.

some result I list here:

....
push 10000 loop 0 num_remove 0 remove times 0
cost list: 3 sum 0
cost deque: 1 sum 0
cost vector: 0 sum 0
....
test push 10000 loop 10000 num_remove 0 remove times 0
cost list: 280 sum 652302704
cost deque: 335 sum 603232704
cost vector: 58 sum 654802704
....
test push 0 loop 0 num_remove 10000 remove times 100000
cost list: 3502 sum 0
cost deque: 4897 sum 0
cost vector: 858 sum 0

and the code:

#include <windows.h>

struct st_cost
{
public:
 LARGE_INTEGER g_Frequency;
 __int64 m_start;
 __int64 m_end;
 st_cost(){
  QueryPerformanceFrequency(&g_Frequency);
 }
 void start(){
  LARGE_INTEGER t;
  QueryPerformanceCounter(&t);
  m_start = t.QuadPart;
 }
 void end(){
  LARGE_INTEGER t1;
  QueryPerformanceCounter(&t1);
  m_end = t1.QuadPart;
 }
 int get_cost_this() const{
  return (m_end - m_start) * 1000 / g_Frequency.QuadPart;
 }
};

struct st_cost_guide
{
public:
 st_cost& m_cost;
 st_cost_guide(st_cost& cost):m_cost(cost){m_cost.start();}
 ~st_cost_guide(){m_cost.end();}
};

#include <list>
#include <vector>
#include <deque>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

template<class T, class A>
bool remove_container(T& t, A a)
{
 T::iterator it = std::find(t.begin(),t.end(),a);
 if (it != t.end())
 {
  t.erase(it);
  return true;
 }
 return false;
}

template<typename T>
int test_container_pushback(int n,T& t)
{
 for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
 {
  t.push_back(rand() % 100);
 }
 return 0;
}

template<typename T>
int test_container_loop(int loop,T& t)
{
 int sum = 0;
 for (int i=0; i<loop; i++)
 {
  T::iterator e = t.end();
  for (T::iterator it = t.begin(); it != e; ++it)
  {
   sum += *it;
  }
 }
 return sum;
}

template<typename T>
int test_remove_and_pushback(int num ,int remove ,T& t)
{
 t.clear();
 for (int i=0; i<num; i++)
 {
  t.push_back(i);
 }
 for (int i=0; i<remove; i++)
 {
  int r = rand() % num;
  T::iterator it = std::find(t.begin(),t.end(),r);
  if (it != t.end())
   t.erase(it);
  t.push_back(r);
 }
 return 0;
}

template<typename T>
int test_container(int n,int loop,int num ,int remove,T& test)
{
 int sum = 0;
 sum += test_container_pushback(n,test);
 sum += test_container_loop(loop,test);
 sum += test_remove_and_pushback(num,remove,test);
 return sum;
}

int test(int n,int loop,int num_remove ,int remove)
{
 cout << __FUNCTION__ << " push " << n << " loop " << loop << " num_remove
" << num_remove << " remove times " << remove << endl;
 st_cost test;
 int sum;
 {
  std::list<int> t;
  st_cost_guide guid(test);
  sum = test_container(n,loop,num_remove,remove,t);
 }
 cout << "cost list: " << test.get_cost_this() << " sum " << sum << endl;
 {
  std::deque<int> t;
  st_cost_guide guid(test);
  sum = test_container(n,loop,num_remove,remove,t);
 }
 cout << "cost deque: " << test.get_cost_this() << " sum " << sum << endl;
 {
  std::vector<int> t;
  st_cost_guide guid(test);
  sum = test_container(n,loop,num_remove,remove,t);
 }
 cout << "cost vector: " << test.get_cost_this() << " sum " << sum << endl
<< endl;
 return 0;
}

void test_push_and_loop()
{
 cout << __FUNCTION__ " start " << endl;
 int n = 1;
 int loop = 100000000;
 for (int i=0; i<5; i++)
 {
  test(n,loop,0,0);
  n *= 10;
  loop /= 10;
 }
 cout << __FUNCTION__ " end " << endl << endl;
}

void test_push()
{
 cout << __FUNCTION__ " start " << endl;
 int n = 1;
 int loop = 0;
 for (int i=0; i<5; i++)
 {
  test(n,loop,0,0);
  n *= 10;
 }
 cout << __FUNCTION__ " end " << endl << endl;
}

void test_remove()
{
 cout << __FUNCTION__ " start " << endl;
 int n = 1;
 int loop = 100000;
 for (int i=0; i<5; i++)
 {
  test(0,0,n,loop);
  n *= 10;
 }
 cout << __FUNCTION__ " end " << endl << endl;
}

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
 test_push();
 test_push_and_loop();
 test_remove();

 return 0;
}

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