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 listSep 10, 2026 15:24Andrew EpsteinAndrew EpsteinScore: 4,472Success
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1Sep 10, 2026 15:254,461969,451,170921,499,00037,735,0002,113,536
2Sep 10, 2026 15:254,461969,515,672921,619,00037,638,0002,113,536
3Sep 10, 2026 15:254,465970,452,757922,918,00037,239,0002,113,536
4Sep 10, 2026 15:254,470971,498,912923,460,00037,627,0002,113,536
5Sep 10, 2026 15:254,472971,909,980923,979,00037,514,0002,113,536
6Sep 10, 2026 15:254,474972,148,652924,511,00037,544,0002,113,536
7Sep 10, 2026 15:254,474971,974,961924,495,00037,453,0002,113,536
8Sep 10, 2026 15:254,475972,392,664924,547,00037,635,0002,113,536
9Sep 10, 2026 15:254,486974,800,065926,778,00037,806,0002,113,536