C Deque Vs Vector
Originally only vector list and deque were defined.
C deque vs vector. If the vector space is not already reserved then growing the vector would require it to be moved every time the vector runs out of space. In addition insertion and deletion at either end of a deque never invalidates pointers or references to the rest of the elements. The pre allocated vector is clearly the winner here. As opposed to stdvector the elements of a deque are not stored contiguously.
Whereas deque provides operations for insertion at front middle and end. Later it was incorporated into a boost library and was proposed for inclusion in the standard c library. The result is that circular buffer can do most of what deque can do but with the efficient performance of vector and most of what vector can do with only a small loss of functionality and performanc. Vector provides insertion and deletion at middle and end only.
Typical implementations use a sequence of. The array container at first appeared in several books under various names. A deque is also not faster than a vector except in a few cases this speed difference is largely due to testing methodology. The deque is a bit faster than list and vector.
Vector in c stl vectors are same as dynamic arrays with the ability to resize itself automatically when an element is inserted or deleted with their storage being handled automatically by the container. The pushback operations on a vector and deque require similar time if the vector space is already reserved. Header that defines the deque container class. Stddeque double ended queue is an indexed sequence container that allows fast insertion and deletion at both its beginning and its end.
The variations in the results of deque and vector are probably coming from my system that doesnt like allocating so much memory back and forth at this speed. So take all of this with a grain of salt. Until the standardization of the c language in 1998 they were part of the standard template library stl published by sgi. Finally if we use a non trivial data type.