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 listAug 30, 2026 22:38Victor MerckléVictor MerckléScore: 2,465Success
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1Aug 30, 2026 22:402,458536,973,888514,910,00013,642,0002,125,824stderr
2Aug 30, 2026 22:402,459537,073,542514,191,00014,537,0002,125,824stderr
3Aug 30, 2026 22:402,463538,081,657516,112,00013,632,0002,125,824stderr
4Aug 30, 2026 22:402,464538,337,574515,235,00014,721,0002,125,824stderr
5Aug 30, 2026 22:402,465538,429,733515,656,00014,462,0002,125,824stderr
6Aug 30, 2026 22:402,466538,624,733516,454,00013,764,0002,125,824stderr
7Aug 30, 2026 22:402,468539,080,574516,901,00013,723,0002,125,824stderr
8Aug 30, 2026 22:402,487543,472,585521,287,00013,617,0002,125,824stderr
9Aug 30, 2026 22:402,487543,123,865520,946,00013,783,0002,125,824stderr