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Should I use "#define ll long long" or "typedef long long ll"
By Qualified, history, 5 years ago, In English

Is there a difference in time between the two methods? Which one is better and why?

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5 years ago, # |
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There is no difference in time, but using #define ll long long is not recommended by specifications, you should use typedef for defining types.

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    or try

    using ll = long long;

    It's easier to understand! Though I always end up using #define because of my bad practices :(

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    Neither define nor typedef defines a new type.

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The syntax using ll = long long; is more modern.

For a simple type definition it does exactly the same as typedef long long ll;

But using supports template parameters, so the concept is more powerful. In example the following definition does not work good with typedef.

template<typename T>
using MyList = std::list<T, MyAlloc<T>>;

MyList<Sometype> myList;

Since a typedef does not support template parameters we would need to 'misuse' a struct, something like this:

template<typename T>
struct MyList {
  typedef std::list<T, MyAlloc<T>> type;
};

MyList<Sometype>::type myList;
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    Thanks! But which one would you recommend?

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      Until some hours ago I used typedef, then did read your post, did read about the topic...and decided to use using.

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Both of these are wrong. Use #define int long long =)

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    Why int long long is bad? (I don't know)

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      Well sometimes it causes TLE because the processing time for long long is 2 times that of int and the statement changes all int to long long, so after continuous use of #define int long long you kind of forget that it's there, and with problems with tight time limit bound you end up getting a TLE ( but after 1 or 2 TLE's you kind of become vigilante :p )

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        thanks to reply

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        A lot of simple 64-bit operations are one clock cycle if you submit with C++17 (64). In the time I've used #define int long long in my template, it hasn't caused me any trouble in MLE/TLE, and has saved me many times from unexpected overflow.

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          Well you can't expect every website to be as upto date as CF, even Google competitions don't have c++17 as far as I remember :)

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          remember to writesigned main()

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print long long manually until you're master

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Use using ll = long long.

It will replace ll with long long only in contexts where ll is a type. It also makes a real type-level type alias.

#define ll long long will blindly replace ll token with long long tokens everywhere in your code even if it does not make sense. In particular, you won't be able to write ll(10.5) with #define as you could with other types like int(10.5).

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I always use "define int long long"^~^

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