Hi,
On 03/05/2017 17:57, Jason H wrote:
I have a app that does a lot of numeric processing,using quint32, qreal mostly
(and occasional QVector3D). 10k-1M items in the data set. I generally do know
the size of the dataset before I start adding to it, so I call reserve() on it.
Given that, and that I've been using QMap and QVector, when I use QMap and want
the keys() it gives me a QList, which I then have to call toVector() on.
So this leads me to ask if I should be using QList all this time? I had thought
that QList was considered harmful. [1][2][3]
But "everything" seems to return to me a QList, rather than a QVector.
What should I be using? (I'm Targeting 5.8 and later.)
Depends upon your usage patterns. Do you do a lot of map operations over
the vectors/maps? If so cache coherency may well be the biggest factor,
in which case QVector or even std::vector may give you better
performance than QMap. Given the current discrepancy between CPU speeds
and memory access latencies it's hard to do better than a vector for
pure performance as the contiguous memory layout makes better use of the
L2 cache.
If ease of API use is your main concern then QMap may be a better fit.
It all depends what you are using this data for.
Cheers,
Sean
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