Re: Which is more Efficient in STL ------ SET / MAP ?
On 2008-02-13 08:30, Pallav singh wrote:
Hi All ,
Which is more Efficient in STL ------ SET / MAP ?
Most probably they are equally efficient.
as in SET we can use insert( ) function which allow to insert at a
given Iterator position ( if Element is passed by comparator
function )........I have a Doubt that does not it harm Search time
Complexity in SET???
Why would it? The only difference between inserting using an iterator
and not using it is that if you do you might save some time that would
otherwise been used searching for the position to insert. Notice though
that I said might, there is no guarantee that you save anything,
especially if the iterator points to the wrong place.
How are These Both Differ in their Internal Implementation using
Different Type Tree's ??
I would imagine that on most implementations there is some kind of red-
black tree which is used to store the elements in the set. For map the
same tree is used but instead of storing elements of type T it stores
elements of type std::pair, by using another comparator for the map this
becomes invisible for the tree implementation.
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