Re: deque Clear vs Swap
Keshav <gupta.keshav@gmail.com> wrote:
I came across some code today and now i m curious to know which one
is faster.
class A {
// Class members and lots of class data.
};
int main()
{
std::deque<A> deq;
// Create some members of A and push them into deq.
A a, b,c,d;
deq.push(a);
deq.push(b);
deq.push(c);
deq.push(d);
deq.clear();
std::deque<A>().swap(deq);
// Both of above function clears the deq but i wanted to know which
one is faster and why? which one is recommended?
return 0;
}
clear() may be faster. All clear guarantees is that the destructor for
each element will be called and deq.size() will return 0.
The swap trick, on the other hand, will ensure that all memory the deq
has allocated will be freed up.
Both have linear complexity so the time it takes depends on how many
elements exist in the deq. (Note the swap function is constant time,
however the temp gets destroyed and the destructor is linear.)
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