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Re: 500. Turbo Sort [message #172640 is a reply to message #172607]

Wed, 23 February 2011 01:15

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Kevin Wells wrote:

> n00m <n00m(at)narod(dot)ru> wrote:
>> http://www.spoj.pl/problems/TSORT/
>> My php code gets TimeLimitExceeded. Can it be accelerated somehow?
>> Just curious. No problem here with C, C++, Pascal etc.
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> $a = array_fill(0, 1000001, 0);
>>
>> fscanf(STDIN, "%d\n", &$n);
>>
>> for ($i = 0; $i < $n; ++$i) {
>> fscanf(STDIN, "%d\n", &$v);
>> ++$a[$v];
>> }
>>
>> //sort($a, SORT_NUMERIC);
>>
>> for ($i = 0; $i < 1000001; ++$i) {
>> for ($j = 0; $j < $a[$i]; ++$j) {
>> echo $i."\n";
>> }
>> }
>>
>> ?>
>
> Shouldn't it be $i++ not ++$i on the for loop?

Yes, it should not. First of all, the two expressions are semantically
equivalent *there*: the variable value is increased by one *after* one
cycle. Second, the algorithm for $i++ has to back up the original value of
$i since it is that which this expression evaluates to; ++$i does not have
to back up anything, saving one step. But since the variable value is not
immediately used here, optimization by the compiler might smooth out the
difference. Personally, I have used post-increment before on such occasions
but since a while I am using pre-increment just in case compilers are not as
advanced as I wish them to be.

On a funny side note, Bjarne Stroustrup said in an interview that there was
general agreement that his C++ (formerly, "C with Classes") should have been
named ++C, but he thought "that would [have created] too many problems for
non-geeks"¹ ;-)

PointedEars
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a-z_programming_languages_c_/>
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		Re: 500. Turbo Sort By: Kevin Wells on Tue, 22 February 2011 04:30
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