Median Sergey Svistunov

Find the median of a stream of binary integers as fast as possible.

Input: 100 000 000 uint32 values in little-endian binary on STDIN (4 bytes each).

Output: The median value, printed as a decimal string. The median is defined as the element at index N/2 (i.e., a[50000000]) in the sorted array.

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1Jan 27, 2025 23:4200000Error: expected "2138648948 ", got "First loop time: 74441929 ns Second loop time: 9945 ns Third loop time: 24874442 ns nth_element time: 110278 ns 0"stderr