Codility6 MaxCounters

Task description

You are given N counters, initially set to 0, and you have two possible operations on them:

• increase(X) − counter X is increased by 1,
• max counter − all counters are set to the maximum value of any counter.

A non-empty zero-indexed array A of M integers is given. This array represents consecutive operations:

• if A[K] = X, such that 1 ≤ X ≤ N, then operation K is increase(X),
• if A[K] = N + 1 then operation K is max counter.

For example, given integer N = 5 and array A such that:

    A[0] = 3
    A[1] = 4
    A[2] = 4
    A[3] = 6
    A[4] = 1
    A[5] = 4
    A[6] = 4

the values of the counters after each consecutive operation will be:

    (0, 0, 1, 0, 0)
    (0, 0, 1, 1, 0)
    (0, 0, 1, 2, 0)
    (2, 2, 2, 2, 2)
    (3, 2, 2, 2, 2)
    (3, 2, 2, 3, 2)
    (3, 2, 2, 4, 2)

The goal is to calculate the value of every counter after all operations.

Write a function:

vector<int> solution(int N, vector<int> &A);

that, given an integer N and a non-empty zero-indexed array A consisting of M integers, returns a sequence of integers representing the values of the counters.

The sequence should be returned as:

• a structure Results (in C), or
• a vector of integers (in C++), or
• a record Results (in Pascal), or
• an array of integers (in any other programming language).

For example, given:

    A[0] = 3
    A[1] = 4
    A[2] = 4
    A[3] = 6
    A[4] = 1
    A[5] = 4
    A[6] = 4

the function should return [3, 2, 2, 4, 2], as explained above.

Assume that:

• N and M are integers within the range [1..100,000];
• each element of array A is an integer within the range [1..N + 1].

Complexity:

• expected worst-case time complexity is O(N+M);
• expected worst-case space complexity is O(N), beyond input storage (not counting the storage required for input arguments).

Elements of input arrays can be modified.

Soluion

无论如何时间复杂度也是O(N*M)，不知哪路大神能降到O(N+M)。求教了。

//CaptainMay AllRights Reserved
vector<int> solution(int N, vector<int> &A) {
    // write your code in C++11
    vector<int> RES(N, 0);
    int MaxLoc = 0;
    int n = A.size();
    for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i)
    {
        if (A[i] <= N)
        {
            ++RES[A[i] - 1];
            if (RES[A[i] - 1] > RES[MaxLoc])
                MaxLoc = A[i] - 1;
        }      
        else
        {
            vector<int> TMP(N, RES[MaxLoc]);
            RES = TMP;
        }     
    }
    return RES;
}