Re: How to check variables for uniqueness ?

From:
"Ed" <iamfractal@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
30 Dec 2006 08:15:18 -0800
Message-ID:
<1167495318.519732.273430@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Hemal Pandya skrev:

Ed Kirwan wrote:

Patricia Shanahan wrote:

[...]

Perhaps using a List would obviate the need for the nest loop?


It will, but will be a lot more expensive.
[....]


Thanks for that tip, Hemal. I had no idea that Set-implementations were
so much more efficient (in this case) than List-implementations. The
output from the (no-doubt indent-mashed) code below gives:

522393 duplicated words. Using java.util.HashSet, time = 678ms.
522393 duplicated words. Using java.util.TreeSet, time = 1812ms.
522393 duplicated words. Using java.util.ArrayList, time = 157724ms.
522393 duplicated words. Using java.util.LinkedList, time = 251739ms.

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

class Test {
    private static String TEXT_BOOK_NAME = "war-and-peace.txt";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        String text = readText(); // Read text into RAM
        countDuplicateWords(text, new HashSet());
        countDuplicateWords(text, new TreeSet());
        countDuplicateWords(text, new ArrayList());
        countDuplicateWords(text, new LinkedList());
    } catch (Throwable t) {
        System.out.println(t.toString());
    }
    }

    private static String readText() throws Throwable {
    BufferedReader reader =
        new BufferedReader(new FileReader(TEXT_BOOK_NAME));
    String line = null;
    StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer();
    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        text.append(line + " ");
    }
    return text.toString();
    }

    private static void countDuplicateWords(String text,
                        Collection listOfWords) {
    int numDuplicatedWords = 0;
    long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    for (StringTokenizer i = new StringTokenizer(text);
         i.hasMoreElements();) {
        String word = i.nextToken();
        if (listOfWords.contains(word)) {
        numDuplicatedWords++;
        } else {
        listOfWords.add(word);
        }
    }
    long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    System.out.println(numDuplicatedWords + " duplicated words. " +
               "Using " + listOfWords.getClass().getName() +
               ", time = " + (endTime - startTime) + "ms.");
    }
}

..ed

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