Re: Pointers to key and value of a map

From:
=?iso-8859-1?q?Erik_Wikstr=F6m?= <eriwik@student.chalmers.se>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
10 May 2007 03:57:25 -0700
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<1178794645.409508.222270@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On 10 Maj, 11:54, d.avitab...@gmail.com wrote:

Unfortunately, I have no control on the funcion "myfunction", despite
the name I had given in the example...


Please, quote the text you are replying to.

I can not touch, nor modify myfunction's interface.

I am doing this at the moment

int * theIntegers = new int[maxSizeOfTheList];
double * theIntegers = new double[maxSizeOfTheList];
int sizeOfTheList = 0
// Building indices and values
      for ( map<int,double>::iterator it=nonzeroEntries.begin() ; it !
= nonzeroEntries.end(); it++ ) {
        theIntegers[sizeOfTheList] = (*it).first;
        theDoubles[sizeOfTheList] = (*it).second;
        ++sizeOfTheList;
      }

Can you just confirm that what I wrote is not absolutely inefficient?


No, it's not horribly inefficient, but it can be made better (if
perhaps not more efficient) by using vectors instead:

vector<int> keys;
vector<double> values;
key.reserve(nonzeroEntries.size());
values.reserve(nonzeroEntries.size());
for (map<int, double>::iterator it = nonzeroEntries.begin(); it !=
nonzeroEntries.end(); ++it)
{
  keys.push_back(it->first);
  values.push_back(it->first);
}

Unless the size nonzeroEntries can be really large you probably wont
notice much difference if you delete the reserve()-calls. By using
vectors you don't have to worry about freeing the memory used by the
arrays, but you get all the functionality. You can then call
myfunction like this:

  myfunction(&keys[0], &values[0]);

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