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 06:30Andrew EpsteinAndrew EpsteinScore: 26,600Success
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1Oct 2, 2026 06:3226,4865,705,284,3555,399,364,000295,202,0002,121,728stderr
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5Oct 2, 2026 06:3226,6005,729,931,7295,423,346,000295,834,0002,121,728stderr
6Oct 2, 2026 06:3226,6125,733,028,7095,423,412,000298,228,0002,121,728stderr
7Oct 2, 2026 06:3226,6995,751,106,6805,438,558,000301,728,0002,121,728stderr
8Oct 2, 2026 06:3226,7685,769,129,8345,449,999,000305,312,0002,121,728stderr
9Oct 2, 2026 06:3227,0805,833,554,4755,521,251,000301,163,0002,121,728stderr