Re: Breakthrough

From:
MelissA <melis@a.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:01:28 +0200
Message-ID:
<jqj46o$eo9$2@news.albasani.net>
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:44:30 +0200
MelissA <melis@a.com> wrote:

On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:32:34 +0000 (UTC)
Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> wrote:

In comp.lang.c++ MelissA <melis@a.com> wrote:

#define N 10000000

int main()
{
 std::list<int> L1;
 long long sum=0,newSum=0;
 for(int i = 0; i < N; ++i)
 {
   int d = rand();
   sum+=d;
   L1.push_back(d);


Your test is basically useless as a measurement of sorting speed
because the vast majority of the time will be spent on those
push_back() calls.

If you want to test sorting speed and nothing else, you have to
discard the time spent in memory allocation.

Here is just sorting time, C version is significantly faster:

bmaxa@maxa:~/jacob/ccl$ ./testlist
sort time 3.140
Sum = 10738138201479754
bmaxa@maxa:~/jacob/ccl$ ./cpplist
sort time 5.350
Sum = 10738138201479754
bmaxa@maxa:~/jacob/ccl$


But watch out this:
It is faster to populate vector from list, then
to sort vector , then to clear list, then
to populate list from vector then C version! ;)

bmaxa@maxa:~/jacob/ccl$ time ./cpplist
sort time 0.750
Sum = 10738138201479754

real 0m1.813s
user 0m1.660s
sys 0m0.152s
bmaxa@maxa:~/jacob/ccl$ time ./testlist
sort time 3.140
Sum = 10738138201479754

real 0m4.302s
user 0m4.208s
sys 0m0.096s
bmaxa@maxa:~/jacob/ccl$ cat cpplist.cpp
#include <list>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>

#define N 10000000

int main()
{
  std::list<int> L1;
  long long sum=0,newSum=0;
  for(int i = 0; i < N; ++i)
  {
    int d = rand();
    sum+=d;
    L1.push_back(d);
  }
  std::vector<int> tmp(L1.begin(),L1.end());
  clock_t t = clock();
  std::sort(tmp.begin(),tmp.end());
  clock_t et = clock();
  L1.clear();
  L1.insert(L1.begin(),tmp.begin(),tmp.end());
  printf("sort time %.3f\n",float(et - t)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
  
  for(auto it : L1)
  {
    newSum+= it;
  }
  
  if (sum != newSum)
          printf("Failed\n");
  else printf("Sum = %lld\n",sum);
                                   
}

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