Group by sum 
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.
| # | Author | Score | Language | Solution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,347 | CPP g++14.2.0 | Sep 25, 2026 21:20 514,210,852 ns · 478,485,000 ns · 26,197,000 ns · 20,480 B | ||
| 2 | 2,372 | CPP clang++20.1.2 | Sep 4, 2026 23:18 518,470,584 ns · 488,092,000 ns · 21,892,000 ns · 2,121,728 B | ||
| 3 | 2,789 | GO go1.26.2 | Aug 17, 2026 13:08 608,263,740 ns · 572,952,000 ns · 26,793,000 ns · 2,129,920 B | ||
| 4 | 2,859 | CPP g++14.2.0 | Aug 14, 2026 11:27 624,652,252 ns · 601,084,000 ns · 13,749,000 ns · 2,117,632 B | ||
| 5 | 2,968 | RUST rust-1.95.0 | Aug 10, 2026 08:58 648,764,739 ns · 599,366,000 ns · 38,779,000 ns · 2,113,536 B | ||
| 6 | 3,039 | CPP clang++20.1.2 | Sep 15, 2026 02:19 663,948,192 ns · 647,893,000 ns · 5,558,000 ns · 2,117,632 B | ||
| 7 | 3,386 | RUST rust-1.95.0 | Aug 13, 2026 10:07 738,148,663 ns · 687,208,000 ns · 40,992,000 ns · 2,113,536 B | ||
| 8 | 3,925 | CPP clang++19.1.1 | Sep 23, 2026 08:52 854,449,975 ns · 812,272,000 ns · 31,679,000 ns · 2,113,536 B | ||
| 9 | 4,852 | CPP clang++19.1.1 | Aug 14, 2026 22:31 1,053,399,549 ns · 988,838,000 ns · 54,374,000 ns · 2,113,536 B | ||
| 10 | 5,018 | RUST rust-1.95.0 | Sep 17, 2026 14:55 1,089,336,833 ns · 1,052,537,000 ns · 26,505,000 ns · 2,117,632 B | ||
| 11 | 7,476 | CPP g++10.5.0 | Aug 11, 2026 16:31 1,617,557,935 ns · 1,568,200,000 ns · 39,337,000 ns · 2,113,536 B | ||
| 12 | 8,268 | CPP clang++20.1.2 | Aug 13, 2026 09:09 1,788,642,463 ns · 1,743,879,000 ns · 33,905,000 ns · 2,121,728 B | ||
| 13 | 8,532 | CPP g++10.5.0 | Aug 10, 2026 18:07 1,845,398,930 ns · 1,801,744,000 ns · 32,829,000 ns · 2,113,536 B | ||
| 14 | 9,285 | CPP g++10.5.0 | Sep 9, 2026 20:07 2,007,684,137 ns · 1,807,346,000 ns · 188,938,000 ns · 20,480 B | ||
| 15 | 41,529 | GO go1.27.1 | Sep 15, 2026 14:46 8,939,798,783 ns · 8,752,108,000 ns · 176,785,000 ns · 2,138,112 B | ||
| 16 | 44,896 | RUST rust-1.95.0 | Aug 11, 2026 07:11 9,662,787,425 ns · 9,446,595,000 ns · 206,180,000 ns · 2,117,632 B |