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TLE from unordered_set C++
By haochenkang, history, 2 years ago, In English

Hello Codeforces community!

I have a question regarding question B in the recent CodeTon round.

My solution passed all pretests, but TLE on test 22 in the main tests. My code is: 150736681

I used an unordered_set to keep tracking of the seen elements. However, when I changed it to set, the solution passed main tests too. I have always thought that unordered_set is faster than set. Can someone please explain to me what's happening here?

Thanks for any help!

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Read Blowing up unordered_map

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    Hi codemastercpp,

    Thanks for your prompt reply!

    Should I always use set instead of unordered_set? How should I decide which one to use?

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      if complexity allows, I prefer using set/map over unordered_set/unordered_map however, if constraints are tight, I use safe_map that is described in the blog I mentioned.

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https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/68000

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