Re: Vector Erase

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:53:08 -0400
Message-ID:
<fd8mh9$rij$1@news.datemas.de>
ma740988 wrote:

For discussion purposes, assume the vector ivec contains 67108864 (67
million elements) elements. Lets futher assume nstart and end equal
1008000 and 11088000 respectively.

The question. What's the _fastest_ way to erase element numbers less
than 1008000 and element numbers greater than 11088000. Current
approach.

typedef std::vector < int > INT_VEC ;

int main () {

 int dummy( 0 ) ;
 for ( INT_VEC::iterator it = ivec.begin(); it != ivec.end(); ) {
   if ( dummy < nstart || dummy > end ) {
     it = ivec.erase ( it ) ;
   } else {
     ++ it ;
   }
   ++ dummy ;
 }

}

This is 'dog' slow. That said, I thinking it would be ideal if i
copied elements into a separate vector.


Extract the numbers you want to keep into the separate vector:

    std::vector<int> tokeep(&ivec[1008000], &ivec[11088000 + 1]);

and clear 'ivec':

    std::vector<int>().swap(ivec);

V
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