Re: help with vector<vector<double>>

From:
Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:41:52 +0300
Message-ID:
<46bd7698$0$9927$39db0f71@news.song.fi>
mistabean@gmail.com wrote:

Sorry to interrupt, but I have been using this method to initialize my
2D-Array for awhile

std::vector< std::vector <double> > array(nRow,
std::vector<double>(nCol, 0.0));

and fill it up index-wise, especially if the data is supposed to be
all over the place and not "column-wise" or "row-wise" insertion.

It works for me so far, however, being a newbie in programming, can
someone tell me what is the drawbacks of using this type of
initialization as opposed to methods suggested beforehand?


  There's nothing wrong with that type of initialization. However,
it assumes that you know the dimensions in advance. If you don't
know them (which is not an unusual situation) then you obviously
can't allocate the space beforehand, but you have to rely on
dynamically increasing the size of the vectors as more and more
data is inserted into them.
  If that is the case then in some situations it's more efficient
to use a std::deque instead of a std::vector, especially if copying
the elements is a slow operation.

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