Re: searching in set vs. vector
Mehturt@gmail.com wrote:
I have found an article with 50 STL tips.. I am wondering about tip
#23:
-- snip --
23) Consider replacing associative containers with sorted vectors.
Associative containers are implemented as balanced binary search trees,
good for a mix of insertions, erasures and lookups. If insertions are
mostly separate from lookups, you can use vectors which would take less
memory, sort it and use lookups at a cost of log n.
-- snip --
I have made a test on GNU/Linux using g++ 4.0 comparing searches in
std::vector<int> and std::set<int> and it seems searches in sorted
vector are faster only for small sizes (about 10 elements), for
anything bigger std::set<int> is much faster (the more elements, the
greater the difference). I mean I'm using std::set<> and std::map<>
not only to store sorted data, but only to have fast searches in the
container.. The memory usage is not really a case for me..
Are you sure you use binary search for vector? std::lower_bound() is
what you should use instead of std::find().
template<class T>
typename std::vector<T>::iterator binary_find(std::vector<T>& v, T
const& t)
{
std::vector<T>::iterator i(std::lower_bind(v.begin(), v.end(), t));
return v.end() != i ? t == *i ? i : v.end() : i;
}
So perhaps somebody can explain this tip a bit further.. I can post the
code I did for testing - if that is relevant..
Source code might shed some light on this.
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