Re: best stl structure for results?
"PaulH" wrote:
I'm trying to find a data structure that can hold the
results of a
multi-stream throughput test so that I can easily print
the results in
a CSV file for later analysis and graphing.
What STL structure is best suited for this?
I was considering something like this:
typedef struct _throughput_results {
int nBytes;
DWORD dwMilliseconds;
} THROUGHPUT_RESULTS, *PTHROUGHPUT_RESULTS;
typedef std::multimap<DWORD /*time*/,
THROUGHPUT_RESULTS>
STREAM_RESULTS;
typedef std::map<int /*stream id*/, STREAM_RESULTS>
RESULTS;
RESULTS m_Results;
But, I'd like to access the results as below:
for each (time)
{
print time
for each (stream @ time)
print(", " + throughput)
}
//output
time, Stream1, Stream2, Stream3,...
If you can guarantee that for each time there will be some
results, then you could keep parallel collections: one for
times and others for stream results:
struct STREAM_SAMPLE
{
int stream_id;
THROUGHPUT_RESULTS thruput_res;
};
typedef std::vector<DWORD> TIMES;
typedef std::vector<STREAM_SAMPLE> STREAM_RESULTS;
typedef std::vector<STREAM_RESULTS> STREAMS;
struct RESULTS
{
TIMES times;
STREAMS streams;
};
RESULTS res;
Output:
for(size_t i = 0; i < res.times.size(); ++i)
{
print_time(res.times[i]);
const STREAM_RESULTS& stream_res = res.streams[i];
STREAM_RESULTS::const_iterator it;
for(it = stream_res.begin();
it != stream_res.end();
++it)
{
const STREAM_SAMPLE& sample = *it;
print_throughput_res(
sample.stream_id,
sample.thruput_res);
}
}
HTH
Alex
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