I am thinking putting those guys in 256 buckets each holding 16 bit shorts and some arrangements would make each bucket sortable using sort(). On Mar 5, 2012 3:14 PM, "Βαγγέλης Μαμαλάκης" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well I a writing a program for a competition and I am initializing some > arrays whose values will be less than 1million so I am trying to save > memory. I am also curious. > Would it be possible to give me some example code or psedocode. > Thanks for your interest. > On Mar 6, 2012 12:44 AM, "Damian Walczak" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Sidhartha Mani <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> You could >>> use 3 char vars to hold your values, but i believe, the size of char >>> differs on different architectures. >>> >> >> AFAIR size of char is always 1 byte in C/C++ and it doesn't matter what >> architecture you are using. >> >> the implementation of this though. I think std::sort() only works and >>> is meant for abstract data structures like vectors and such, not on >>> elementary ones like int. >>> >> >> You can use std::sort for sorting arrays, example is even on wikipedia [1] >> If you write your own class, it's enough to write proper comparison >> function and use second version of std::sort [2] >> >> >> If I may ask - why do you need 3-byte 'int' ? >> >> Best, >> D. >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort_(C%2B%2B) >> [2] http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/sort/ >> >> >> >>> Sidhartha >>> >>> >>> >>> On 06-Mar-2012, at 12:42 AM, bugos <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > Hello, >>> > is there a way to define my own data type, which will be idetical to >>> > an int, but just 3 bytes size? i must be able to use it as an int and >>> > even use std::sort() with it. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Google Code Jam" group. >>> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> > For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Google Code Jam" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Code Jam" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Code Jam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Code Jam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
