Here is my code, my unordered_map and map are behaving the same and taking the same time to execute. Am I missing something about these data structures?
Update: I've changed my code based on the below answers and comments. I've removed string operation to reduce the impact in profiling. Also now I'm only measuring the find() which takes almost 40% of CPU in my code. The profile shows that unordered_map is 3 times faster, however, is there any other way to make this code faster?
#include <map>
#include <unordered_map>
#include <stdio.h>
struct Property {
int a;
};
int main() {
printf("Performance Summery:\n");
static const unsigned long num_iter = 999999;
std::unordered_map<int, Property > myumap;
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
int ind = rand() % 1000;
Property p;
p.a = i;
myumap.insert(std::pair<int, Property> (ind, p));
}
clock_t tStart = clock();
for (int i = 0; i < num_iter; i++) {
int ind = rand() % 1000;
std::unordered_map<int, Property >::iterator itr = myumap.find(ind);
}
printf("Time taken unordered_map: %.2fs\n", (double)(clock() - tStart)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
std::map<int, Property > mymap;
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
int ind = rand() % 1000;
Property p;
p.a = i;
mymap.insert(std::pair<int, Property> (ind, p));
}
tStart = clock();
for (int i = 0; i < num_iter; i++) {
int ind = rand() % 1000;
std::map<int, Property >::iterator itr = mymap.find(ind);
}
printf("Time taken map: %.2fs\n", (double)(clock() - tStart)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
}
The output is here
Performance Summary:
Time taken unordered_map: 0.12s
Time taken map: 0.36s
Without going into your code, I would make a few general comments.