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Revision as of 04:30, 20 January 2020

Associative containers are super useful, both as a convenient fast way to create dictionary or mapping for real-world problems like managing game resources, and as a data structure to help solve more abstract algorithmic computer science problems. And hash tables are fast as balls.

Topics Covered

Part 1

  • std::map container interface
  • Binary tree data structure
  • std::map key requirements (comparison)
  • std::map gotchas (std::remove_if and const keys)
  • std::set
  • std::multimap and std::multiset

Part 2

  • Hash table performance vs. binary tree performance
  • Hash table data structure
  • std::unordered_map key requirements
  • Hash combining
  • std::unordered_map bucket interface and hashing policy
  • When to choose std::map over std::unordered_map

Video Timestamp Index

Tutorial 24.1

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  • The std::map<KeyType,ValueType> class 0:46
  • The Binary tree data structure 2:46
  • A look at the std::map cppreference.com documentation: Insert, Lookup, Find 7:35
  • Requirements on KeyType 14:30
  • std::map cppreference.com documentation continued: Erase 15:28
  • Two <<important>> things to know when working with associative containers 16:04
  • The std::set<KeyType> class 20:00
    • With a set, you only have keys, and a unique entry for each unique key
    • Use case: ensure that there are no duplicates in a set
  • The std::multimap and std::multiset classes 21:28
    • Map has unique keys, with multimap you can insert multiple elements with the same key
    • This enables operations like std::multimap::equal_range that returns a pair of iterators (begin and end) of the range where these elements have that same key
    • std::multimap::count will return the number of elements with specific key
  • Practical example of multimap use case 22:30
    • Implementation example of a custom Comparison functor for the Vei2 class (2D coordinate vector).
    - Chili's choice for ordering (used in the body of the functor):
    - return (lhs.x == rhs.x) ? lhs.y < rhs.y : lhs.x < rhs.x;
    • Example of how to find and print multiple elements in a multimap using equal_range()
  • multimap does not have an index operator [] 25:21

Tutorial 24.2

  • [WORK-IN-PROGRESS]

Homework Assignment

The homework for this video is to enable use of a custom datatype in unordered_map hashing over multiple (4) members of that datatype. The solution video is here.

Supplementary Link

See also