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Find the sum of the 100 largest values in 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 uint64 sum of the top 100 greatest values, printed as a decimal string.

Restrictions:60s512Mb 1 Score Packages

Feel free to create an issue if you need an extra library from the standard Ubuntu repository.

Name	Version	Description
libc6-dev	2.39-0ubuntu8.7	GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files Contains the symlinks, headers, and object files needed to compile and link programs which use the standard C library.
libclang-common-14-dev	1:14.0.6-19build4	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-15-dev	1:15.0.7-14build3	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-16-dev	1:16.0.6-23ubuntu4	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-17-dev	1:17.0.6-9ubuntu1	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-18-dev	1:18.1.3-1ubuntu1	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-19-dev	1:19.1.1-1ubuntu1~24.04.2	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libclang-common-20-dev	1:20.1.2-0ubuntu1~24.04.2	Clang library - Common development package Clang project is a C, C++, Objective C and Objective C++ front-end based on the LLVM compiler. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). . Clang implements all of the ISO C++ 1998, 11, 14 and 17 standards and also provides most of the support of C++20. . This package contains the Clang generic headers.
libcrypt-dev	1:4.4.36-4build1	libcrypt development files This package contains the files needed for developing applications that use libcrypt.
libgcc-10-dev	10.5.0-4ubuntu2.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libgcc-11-dev	11.5.0-1ubuntu1~24.04.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libgcc-12-dev	12.4.0-2ubuntu1~24.04.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libgcc-13-dev	13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libgcc-14-dev	14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04.1	GCC support library (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C programs which use libgcc, libgomp, libquadmath, libssp or libitm.
libobjc-13-dev	13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1	Runtime library for GNU Objective-C applications (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files needed to build GNU ObjC applications.
libssl-dev	3.0.13-0ubuntu3.9	Secure Sockets Layer toolkit - development files This package is part of the OpenSSL project's implementation of the SSL and TLS cryptographic protocols for secure communication over the Internet. . It contains development libraries, header files, and manpages for libssl and libcrypto.
libstdc++-10-dev	10.5.0-4ubuntu2.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libstdc++-11-dev	11.5.0-1ubuntu1~24.04.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libstdc++-12-dev	12.4.0-2ubuntu1~24.04.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libstdc++-13-dev	13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libstdc++-14-dev	14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04.1	GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files) This package contains the headers and static library files necessary for building C++ programs which use libstdc++. . libstdc++-v3 is a complete rewrite from the previous libstdc++-v2, which was included up to g++-2.95. The first version of libstdc++-v3 appeared in g++-3.0.
libtbb-dev	2021.11.0-2ubuntu2	parallelism library for C++ - development files TBB is a library that helps you leverage multi-core processor performance without having to be a threading expert. It represents a higher-level, task-based parallelism that abstracts platform details and threading mechanism for performance and scalability. . (Note: if you are a user of the i386 architecture, i.e., 32-bit Intel or compatible hardware, this package only supports Pentium4-compatible and higher processors.) . This package includes the TBB development files.

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#	Date	Score	Wall Time	CPU User	CPU System	Memory
1	Mar 20, 2026 20:59	100,789	63,053,582	34,269,000	3,023,000	2,428,928
2	Mar 20, 2026 21:01	101,146	62,126,092	34,390,000	3,034,000	2,330,624
3	Mar 20, 2026 21:00	101,654	65,001,726	35,579,000	2,033,000	2,342,912
4	Mar 20, 2026 20:58	101,659	59,411,793	35,581,000	2,033,000	2,330,624
5	Mar 20, 2026 20:57	101,700	62,700,652	36,612,000	1,017,000	2,342,912
6	Mar 20, 2026 20:59	101,832	65,206,716	36,660,000	1,018,000	2,342,912
7	Mar 20, 2026 20:57	101,889	64,149,853	35,662,000	2,037,000	2,342,912
8	Mar 20, 2026 20:59	101,900	66,179,915	36,684,000	1,019,000	2,433,024
9	Mar 20, 2026 20:58	101,927	67,610,510	36,694,000	1,019,000	2,342,912
10	Mar 20, 2026 21:01	102,154	66,319,027	36,776,000	1,021,000	2,342,912
11	Mar 20, 2026 21:00	102,232	63,732,656	35,836,000	1,990,000	2,547,712
12	Mar 20, 2026 20:59	102,281	66,951,310	35,853,000	1,991,000	2,342,912
13	Mar 20, 2026 20:59	102,308	67,842,062	34,866,000	2,988,000	2,519,040
14	Mar 20, 2026 20:58	102,311	71,882,529	35,863,000	1,992,000	2,424,832
15	Mar 20, 2026 20:57	102,373	57,520,657	35,885,000	1,993,000	2,424,832
16	Mar 20, 2026 20:59	102,400	61,854,455	34,897,000	2,991,000	2,342,912
17	Mar 20, 2026 21:01	102,435	74,333,260	34,909,000	2,992,000	2,342,912
18	Mar 20, 2026 20:58	103,238	59,088,964	35,183,000	3,015,000	2,510,848
19	Mar 20, 2026 21:00	104,665	65,812,995	36,688,000	2,038,000	2,326,528
20	Mar 20, 2026 20:58	107,035	74,731,966	36,477,000	3,126,000	2,351,104
21	Mar 20, 2026 20:58	108,403	79,503,948	38,053,000	2,056,000	2,347,008

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