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Автор kshitij_coder, история, 4 года назад, По-английски

I was trying to solve the question B2 — Social Network (hard version). Question Link: https://codeforces.net/contest/1234/problem/B2

I first tried to code the solution using queue and unordered_map. But that gave me TLE. But when I used a map in place of unordered_map, the solution got accepted. Unordered_map does not keep the keys in a sorted format. Then why did an implementation using maps work better? Please guide me on this.

Thanks in advance!!

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Unordered map works in constant time(O(1)) on "Average" but has a worst-case complexity of O(n). Map always works in O(logn) time. I hope this explains you why got TLE in this. Tip: Always use map if the constraints allow!