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 2, 2026 04:08Andrew EpsteinAndrew EpsteinScore: 65,203Success
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#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Oct 2, 2026 04:1164,76713,937,195,26613,622,910,000302,003,0002,121,728stderr
2Oct 2, 2026 04:1164,76913,937,017,19813,619,292,000306,140,0002,121,728stderr
3Oct 2, 2026 04:1165,14814,018,494,45413,701,830,000305,043,0002,121,728stderr
4Oct 2, 2026 04:1165,16814,022,942,40213,704,909,000306,366,0002,121,728stderr
5Oct 2, 2026 04:1165,20314,030,382,08213,714,273,000304,563,0002,121,728stderr
6Oct 2, 2026 04:1165,24914,039,679,37213,724,837,000303,818,0002,121,728stderr
7Oct 2, 2026 04:1165,24914,040,758,83613,724,709,000303,952,0002,121,728stderr
8Oct 2, 2026 04:1165,39214,071,336,05813,753,416,000306,075,0002,121,728stderr
9Oct 2, 2026 04:1165,62314,120,999,16113,802,755,000306,233,0002,121,728stderr