Re: Benchmarks
On 6 Nov, 15:53, s0s...@gmail.com wrote:
The task: Write a program that reads a set of words from standard
input and prints the number of distinct words.
I came across a website that listed a few programs to accomplish this
task:http://unthought.net/c++/c_vs_c++.html(ignore all the language
flaming :-), and thought that all of them did unnecessary operations,
so I wrote my own. But for some reason, my version turned out slower
that ALL of the versions in the website, even though it seems to
perform less operations (yes, I benchmarked them on my own computer).
According to the website, the slowest version is:
#include <set>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
// Declare and Initialize some variables
std::string word;
std::set<std::string> wordcount;
// Read words and insert in rb-tree
while (std::cin >> word) wordcount.insert(word);
// Print the result
std::cout << "Words: " << wordcount.size() << std::endl;
return 0;
}
the above uses an rb tree (or equivalent) in the set class
My version is about 12 times slower than that. It uses lower-level
constructs. Here it is:
[snip version using linear search]
Any ideas as to what causes the big slowdown?
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