There was a long discussion in the C++ community about when and how to implement the static if, the original proposal from Bright, Sutter and Alexandrescu which was aiming to define a possible implementation of this feature was resurrected after a quite long silence, just to be included in the upcoming C++17. The actual implementation of the […]
Programming
Disjoint-set or Union-find?..
I wasn’t planning any post this week, I don’t have that much free time to write posts. But I was forced to write down my own implementation of a disjoint set data structure for the purpose of one of the projects I’m working on, so I thought why not share this piece of code with […]
Unexpected stuff!
Let’s have a look at this code: int main() { for(int i{0};i<500;i++) { std::cout<<“This is a big number: “<<i*20000000<<std::endl; } } And let’s compile it with g++ using the flag -O3, what’s going to happen? Before answering, let’s have a look at the assembly, shall we? L16: movsbl 39(%ebx), %eax L6: movl %esi, %ecx movl […]
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Segment tree
What is the best thing you may possible do when having a eight hours train trip? Writing a blog post of course! That’s actually an interesting story by itself: Where I was and why it take that long to come back home! Anyway! Let’s say you’ve an array of integers, as usual from index 0 to […]
Almost useless knowledge
Is almost useless because nobody is going to raise yours salary for that! Or maybe someone will?!? Let’s say we ignore all the benefits of all the optimizations our benevolent compiler is going to made on our code, and have a look at what happen when we execute some hundreds of thousands of times two very […]
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Solution space.
Certain problems required us to try all the possible solutions to find the one that best fit the given constraint, a very popular brute force way is to perform a complete search of the solution space by iterating over and over the data and changing each time the input variables. If the problem require to […]
Suffix trees.
An entire post covering both the theoretical part and the implementation is going to take too long, for this reason I’m splitting the material in two parts: A post with some theory introduction, and one post which will be focused on implementation details. The algorithm I would like to show you is the Ukkonen method for […]
String searching algorithms comparison.
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Summary for the week.
This was a very long week! Most of my free time I was at the gym or on my combinatorics book learning fancy details about the pigeonhole principle, which is very simple but with large implications in problem solving. The pigeonhole principle basically say that if you want to put three pigeon in two holes, […]
Subsequences and Fenwick tree’s
Let’s say that we have a sequence A of 1<=n<=10^5 elements, and that this sequence may or may not be ordered but all the numbers {1…n} are present exactly once. And now given 1<=k<=10, you’re asked to find all the increasing sub-sequences of A with exactly k+1 elements. This is a problem I get from a competitive programming […]