Re: sorting the input

From:
=?UTF-8?B?RXJpayBXaWtzdHLDtm0=?= <Erik-wikstrom@telia.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:45:38 GMT
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<SQSxk.2202$U5.3937@newsb.telia.net>
On 2008-09-10 15:13, ????????? wrote:

arnuld ??????:

A program that asks user to input words and then prints them in
alphabetical order. I have used vectors to accomplish task. That left me
wondering with 2 questions:

  1) whether list will be a good idea. I am basically concerned about CPU
  efficiency.

  2) Is the program is a C++ program or C program written in C++.


you wrote nice code of STL style, but i think use typedef to redefine
some iterator type is better to read.

in my point of view,the std::sort works better with std::vector than
std::list,


Yes, but you can use std::list<T>::sort() to get better performance.

but, the std::vector<typename T>::push_back is less efficient than
std::list<>::insert.


Unless you have an idea about how many elements you'll end up with. If
you do you can use the vector's reserve() to pre-allocate memory in
which case inserts will be in O(1).

so i suggest use list as container of strings.


I would use a vector until the profiler tells me otherwise.

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Erik Wikstr??m

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