效率是一个复杂的概念。有时间和空间的考虑，以及一般的测量(你只能得到模糊的答案，如O(n))和特定的(例如冒泡排序可以比快速排序快得多，这取决于输入特征)。

如果你有相对较少的副本，那么排序，然后唯一和擦除似乎是要走的路。如果您有相对较多的副本，则从向量创建一个集合，并让它完成繁重的工作，可以轻松击败它。

也不要只关注时间效率。Sort+unique+erase操作在O(1)空间，而set构造操作在O(n)空间。而且这两种方法都不能直接用于map-reduce并行化(对于真正庞大的数据集)。

unique只删除重复的元素，如果它们是邻居:你必须先对向量排序，然后它才能像你想的那样工作。

unique被定义为稳定的，所以在vector上运行unique之后，它仍然会被排序。

下面是使用std::unique()出现重复删除问题的示例。在LINUX机器上，程序崩溃。详情请阅读评论。

// Main10.cpp
//
// Illustration of duplicate delete and memory leak in a vector<int*> after calling std::unique.
// On a LINUX machine, it crashes the progam because of the duplicate delete.
//
// INPUT : {1, 2, 2, 3}
// OUTPUT: {1, 2, 3, 3}
//
// The two 3's are actually pointers to the same 3 integer in the HEAP, which is BAD
// because if you delete both int* pointers, you are deleting the same memory
// location twice.
//
//
// Never mind the fact that we ignore the "dupPosition" returned by std::unique(),
// but in any sensible program that "cleans up after istelf" you want to call deletex
// on all int* poitners to avoid memory leaks.
//
//
// NOW IF you replace std::unique() with ptgi::unique(), all of the the problems disappear.
// Why? Because ptgi:unique merely reshuffles the data:
// OUTPUT: {1, 2, 3, 2}
// The ptgi:unique has swapped the last two elements, so all of the original elements in
// the INPUT are STILL in the OUTPUT.
//
// 130215   dbednar@ptgi.com
//============================================================================

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <functional>

#include "ptgi_unique.hpp"

// functor used by std::unique to remove adjacent elts from vector<int*>
struct EqualToVectorOfIntegerStar: public std::equal_to<int *>
{
    bool operator() (const int* arg1, const int* arg2) const
    {
        return (*arg1 == *arg2);
    }
};

void printVector( const std::string& msg, const std::vector<int*>& vnums);

int main()
{
    int inums [] = { 1, 2, 2, 3 };
    std::vector<int*> vnums;

    // convert C array into vector of pointers to integers
    for (size_t inx = 0; inx < 4; ++ inx)
        vnums.push_back( new int(inums[inx]) );

    printVector("BEFORE UNIQ", vnums);

    // INPUT : 1, 2A, 2B, 3
    std::unique( vnums.begin(), vnums.end(), EqualToVectorOfIntegerStar() );
    // OUTPUT: 1, 2A, 3, 3 }
    printVector("AFTER  UNIQ", vnums);

    // now we delete 3 twice, and we have a memory leak because 2B is not deleted.
    for (size_t inx = 0; inx < vnums.size(); ++inx)
    {
        delete(vnums[inx]);
    }
}

// print a line of the form "msg: 1,2,3,..,5,6,7\n", where 1..7 are the numbers in vnums vector
// PS: you may pass "hello world" (const char *) because of implicit (automatic) conversion
// from "const char *" to std::string conversion.

void printVector( const std::string& msg, const std::vector<int*>& vnums)
{
    std::cout << msg << ": ";

    for (size_t inx = 0; inx < vnums.size(); ++inx)
    {
        // insert comma separator before current elt, but ONLY after first elt
        if (inx > 0)
            std::cout << ",";
        std::cout << *vnums[inx];

    }
    std::cout << "\n";
}

假设a是一个向量，使用

a.erase(独特(a.begin (), a.end ()), a.end ());运行时间为O(n)。

如果你不想改变元素的顺序，那么你可以尝试这个解决方案:

template <class T>
void RemoveDuplicatesInVector(std::vector<T> & vec)
{
    set<T> values;
    vec.erase(std::remove_if(vec.begin(), vec.end(), [&](const T & value) { return !values.insert(value).second; }), vec.end());
}

void EraseVectorRepeats(vector <int> & v){ 
TOP:for(int y=0; y<v.size();++y){
        for(int z=0; z<v.size();++z){
            if(y==z){ //This if statement makes sure the number that it is on is not erased-just skipped-in order to keep only one copy of a repeated number
                continue;}
            if(v[y]==v[z]){
                v.erase(v.begin()+z); //whenever a number is erased the function goes back to start of the first loop because the size of the vector changes
            goto TOP;}}}}

这是我创建的一个函数，你可以用它来删除重复。所需的头文件只有<iostream>和<vector>。