What's the time complexity of iterating through a std::set/std::multiset/std::map/std::multimap? I believe that it is linear in the size of the set/map, but not so sure. Is it specified in the language standard?
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在 草案 C++11 标准 N3337 答案可以在 § 24.2.1 第 8 段中找到:
In the draft C++11 standard N3337 the answer can be found in § 24.2.1 paragraph 8:
所有类别的迭代器只需要那些可在固定时间内实现给定类别(摊销).
All the categories of iterators require only those functions that are
realizable for a given category in constant time (amortized).
由于对迭代器的每次操作都必须是常数时间，因此遍历n 个元素必须是O(n).
Since each operation on an iterator must be constant time, iterating through n elements must be O(n).
