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 05:11Andrew EpsteinAndrew EpsteinScore: 47,295Success
Source Code

Source code access is restricted. Log in to request access.

Challenge History

No challenges yet.

Run Statistics
#DateScoreWall TimeCPU UserCPU SystemMemoryError
1Oct 2, 2026 05:1547,14710,147,813,94910,083,062,00053,569,0002,121,728stderr
2Oct 2, 2026 05:1547,19310,157,736,59110,092,654,00053,872,0002,121,728stderr
3Oct 2, 2026 05:1547,27210,174,627,21710,109,595,00054,012,0002,121,728stderr
4Oct 2, 2026 05:1547,27810,176,131,07310,111,564,00053,298,0002,121,728stderr
5Oct 2, 2026 05:1547,29510,179,948,36310,115,184,00053,291,0002,121,728stderr
6Oct 2, 2026 05:1547,40410,202,978,44110,138,405,00053,541,0002,121,728stderr
7Oct 2, 2026 05:1547,43010,208,374,92910,144,152,00053,465,0002,121,728stderr
8Oct 2, 2026 05:1547,45910,214,545,62110,150,145,00053,634,0002,121,728stderr
9Oct 2, 2026 05:1547,75110,278,107,35210,211,549,00055,005,0002,121,728stderr