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Re: Open letter to Ian Collins

From MelissA <melis@a.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Open letter to Ian Collins
Date 2012-05-27 00:52 +0200
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On Sun, 27 May 2012 00:22:01 +0200
jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> wrote:

> Hi Ian
> 
> In the c++ newsgroup you asked me for an example of the ccl
> performance It was something with building a huge list, then sorting
> it, if I remember correctly...
> 
> I have built this example code:
> 
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include "containers.h"
> #define N 10000000
> int main(void)
> {
>          List *L1;
>          size_t i,d;
>          long long sum=0,newSum=0;
>          Iterator *it;
>          int *pint;
> 
>          L1 = iList.Create(sizeof(int));
>          iList.UseHeap(L1,NULL);
>          for (i=0; i<N;i++) {
>                  d = rand();
>                  sum += d;
>                  iList.Add(L1,&d);
>          }
>          iList.Sort(L1);
>          it = iList.NewIterator(L1);
>          for (pint = it->GetFirst(it); pint; pint = it->GetNext(it)) {
>                  newSum += *pint;
>          }
>          if (sum != newSum)
>                  printf("Failed\n");
>          else    printf("Sum = %lld\n",sum);
>          iList.Finalize(L1);
> }
> 
> This creates a list, then fills it with 10 million random integers,
> then sorts it and verifies that all the data is still there by
> accessing all elements of the list with an iterator.
> 
> Can you please send me an equivalent C++program?
> 
> Thanks

Well, I have tested list sorting and traversing and quick sort
by value (doesn't change nodes order) is much faster than
standard stl list sort (which changes nodes order).
Also after sort that doesn't change nodes order, traversing
is much faster then after sort that does change nodes order.
That is of course if initial list nodes are consecutive.
Doesn't matter how much cache cpu has 512kb is enough
to show significant difference.

Greetings!

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Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 00:22 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-05-26 22:36 +0000
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 01:13 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2012-05-26 16:53 -0700
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-05-26 16:41 -0700
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-26 22:43 -0400
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-05-26 15:41 -0700
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 01:14 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins MelissA <melis@a.com> - 2012-05-27 00:52 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-05-26 20:40 -0500
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 09:32 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 07:18 -0400
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 14:24 +1200
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-27 10:36 +0100
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 22:33 +1200
        Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-27 12:25 +0100
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-28 07:17 +1200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-05-27 13:03 +0000
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 15:16 +1200
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 09:30 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 20:56 +1200
        Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 11:12 +0200
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 21:22 +1200
            Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 07:15 -0400
            Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-05-27 07:49 -0700
              Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 13:55 -0400
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 22:24 +0200
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-27 22:09 +0100
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-05-27 14:33 -0700
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 17:49 -0400
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-27 17:31 -0400
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2012-05-28 01:38 -0700
                Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-05-28 08:18 -0400
        Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-27 15:46 +0100
        Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-06-13 21:25 -0400
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-06-13 21:52 -0400
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-14 04:00 +0200
            Re: Open letter to Ian Collins pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-06-14 00:04 -0400
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-27 09:42 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-28 12:39 +0200
    Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-28 21:44 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-05-29 09:46 +0200
        Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 10:06 +0200
          Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 10:37 +0200
            Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 10:58 +0200
              Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.jojo@schmitz-digital.de> - 2012-05-29 11:34 +0200
              Re: Open letter to Ian Collins Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-05-29 03:02 -0700
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 09:59 +0200
      Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-05-29 20:09 +0200
  Re: Open letter to Ian Collins "Sarah Wren" <swreb@ameritech.net> - 2012-05-29 01:40 -0600

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