Group by sum Sergey Svistunov

Aggregate 125,000,000 key/value records by key as fast as possible.

The task is equivalent to this query:

SELECT SUM(s * s) FROM (
    SELECT SUM(value) AS s FROM records GROUP BY key
)

Input

Exactly 125,000,000 records on STDIN, 8 bytes each, back to back (1,000,000,000 bytes in total):

Offset Type Field
0 uint32 little-endian key
4 uint32 little-endian value

Guarantees:

  • The records contain exactly 4,000,000 distinct keys.
  • A key is an arbitrary value in [0, 2^32) and may repeat any number of times.
  • A value is an arbitrary value in [0, 2^32).

Output

Group the records by key, sum the values of each group, then write the sum of the squares of those group sums to STDOUT as a decimal string:

answer = SUM(sum_k * sum_k) over all 4,000,000 distinct keys k

Both the squaring and the outer sum are computed modulo 2^64 (unsigned 64-bit wraparound). An individual group sum never overflows uint64.

Example

For the six records

key=7 value=10
key=3 value=4000000000
key=7 value=20
key=9 value=1
key=3 value=4000000000
key=7 value=30

the group sums are sum_7 = 60, sum_3 = 8000000000 and sum_9 = 1, so

60*60 + 8000000000*8000000000 + 1*1 = 64000000000000003601
64000000000000003601 mod 2^64       = 8659767778871348753

and the program prints 8659767778871348753.

Back to listOct 1, 2026 20:38Andrew EpsteinAndrew EpsteinScore: 3,014Success
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#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Oct 1, 2026 20:393,005657,430,059640,822,0005,314,0002,117,632
2Oct 1, 2026 20:393,010658,002,156642,098,0005,254,0002,117,632
3Oct 1, 2026 20:393,011658,871,796642,286,0005,281,0002,117,632
4Oct 1, 2026 20:393,011658,114,678642,200,0005,249,0002,117,632
5Oct 1, 2026 20:393,014659,108,448642,923,0005,210,0002,117,632
6Oct 1, 2026 20:393,016660,662,768643,011,0005,569,0002,117,632
7Oct 1, 2026 20:393,024660,904,581644,959,0005,249,0002,117,632
8Oct 1, 2026 20:393,024661,054,944645,082,0005,258,0002,117,632
9Oct 1, 2026 20:393,026661,449,156645,258,0005,492,0002,117,632