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In the problem D of recent Edu round, I used binary search to solve the problem, but i'm not able to figure out where the TLE is, please help me find out.

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For this problem, O(nlogn) with bad constant factor could TLE. However, if you add this line of code right after you declare main(): ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(NULL); Using the above code will make the input factor and can make the code significantly faster.

Take a look at my submission of your code with the added line: 277182525 It gets 1842ms with AC.

Feel free to also look at my O(n) solution which passes relatively comfortably (since 1842 ms is still a lot): 276595217

Note that the pragma that I include in the top could also make your code faster. These things might be a good idea for you to include in your template.

Hope this helps!

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Do not use map. Instead use vector of vector for the mp variable.

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    Wow, this optimisation was amazing, reduced the time to nearly 1 second. Thanks a lot!!!

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      I just realized that. This is because map lookup times is O(logn), which means you are doing an additional O(logn) to the O(nlogn) which makes constant factor much worse.

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        The number of keys in the map in this case is constant (6). But map has a high constant factor, so it'll still affects accessing times by a lot.

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        Your O(n) solution is surprisingly avoiding both the log n factors, wow

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      I provide you with this unhackable(or supposedly unhackable) unordered map template:

      mt19937_64 rng(chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch().count());
      struct custom_hash {
            static uint64_t splitmix64(uint64_t x) {
                  x += 0x9e3779b97f4a7c15;
              x = (x^(x>>30))*0xbf58476d1ce4e5b9;
              x = (x^(x>>27))*0x94d049bb133111eb;
              return x^(x>>31);
            }
      
            size_t operator()(uint64_t x) const {
              static const uint64_t FIXED_RANDOM = rng();
              return splitmix64(x+FIXED_RANDOM);
            }
      };
      
      template<typename T, typename V> using safe_map = unordered_map<T, V, custom_hash>;
      
      
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Replacing endl with \n also improves performance. I had to do it some times to not get TLE. I have seen reductions as big as 8x with this (from 1130ms to 134ms), but it'll vary on problems and tests.

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    Is it? Never knew about this. Thank You!!

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      This is because endl flushes the output as well as prints a new line. You need to make sure to flush the output (by doing endl or "\n"+cout.flush();) for interactive problems, but "\n" is better for anything that isn't interactive.

      I would recommend reading this for more detail: https://usaco.guide/general/fast-io

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        Wow, so much information with just one simple doubt, codeforces community is just amazing. Learned a lot from this. Thank you!!