priority_queue的用法

std::priority_queue

Priority queues are a type of container adaptors, specifically designed such that its first element is always the greatest of the elements it contains, according to some  strict weak ordering criterion.

This context is similar to a  heap, where elements can be inserted at any moment, and only the  max heap element can be retrieved (the one at the top in the  priority queue).

Priority queues are implemented as  container adaptors, which are classes that use an encapsulated object of a specific container class as its  underlying container, providing a specific set of member functions to access its elements. Elements are  popped from the  "back" of the specific container, which is known as the  top of the priority queue.

The underlying container may be any of the standard container class templates or some other specifically designed container class. The container shall be accessible through  random access iterators and support the following operations:

• empty()
• size()
• front()
• push_back()
• pop_back()

The standard container classes  vector and  deque fulfill these requirements. By default, if no container class is specified for a particular  priority_queue class instantiation, the standard container vector is used.

Support of  random access iterators is required to keep a heap structure internally at all times. This is done automatically by the container adaptor by automatically calling the algorithm functions  make_heap,  push_heap and  pop_heap when needed.

Template parameters

T

Type of the elements.
Aliased as member type  priority_queue::value_type.

Container

Type of the internal  underlying container object where the elements are stored.
Its  value_type shall be  T.
Aliased as member type  priority_queue::container_type.

Compare

A binary predicate that takes two elements (of type  T) as arguments and returns a  bool.
The expression  comp(a,b), where  comp is an object of this type and  a and  b are elements in the container, shall return true if a is considered to go before b in the strict weak ordering the function defines.
The  priority_queue uses this function to maintain the elements sorted in a way that preserves  heap properties  (i.e., that the element popped is the last according to this strict weak ordering).
This can be a function pointer or a function object, and defaults to less<T>, which returns the same as applying the  less-than operator ( a<b).

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