Not sure what you mean.


On 6 Mar 2012, at 06:19, Neal Zane <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's probably that URAL problem.
> 
> On Mar 5, 2012 10:17 PM, "Luke Pebody" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Probably the memory you save will be less noticeable than the time you spend 
> implementing and debugging your 3-byte int implementation. (The First Thing 
> To Optimize Is Developer Time) Furthermore, these ints will presumably not be 
> as tightly optimised by the compiler, so it will probably not be time 
> efficient. 
> 
> If you are interested in maintaining a sorted array of ints in the range 0 to 
> 1,000,000 then I would think the best data structure may be an array of 
> 1,000,001 ints representing how many times each number appears.
> 
> 
> On 5 Mar 2012, at 23:14, 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.
>> >
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