I have an assignment that requires me to sort a heap based C style array of names as they're being read rather than reading them all and then sorting. This involves a lot of shifting the contents of the array by one to allow new names to be inserted. I'm using the code below but it's extremely slow. Is there anything else I could be doing to optimize it without changing the type of storage?
//the data member
string *_storedNames = new string[4000];
//together boundary and index define the range of elements to the right by one
for(int k = p_boundary - 1;k > index;k--)
_storedNames[k]=_storedNames[k - 1];
EDIT2: As suggested by Cartroo I'm attempting to use memmove with the dynamic data that uses malloc. Currently this shifts the data correctly but once again fails in the deallocation process. Am I missing something?
int numberOfStrings = 10, MAX_STRING_SIZE = 32;
char **array = (char **)malloc(numberOfStrings);
for(int i = 0; i < numberOfStrings; i++)
array[i] = (char *)malloc(MAX_STRING_SIZE);
array[0] = "hello world",array[2] = "sample";
//the range of data to move
int index = 1, boundary = 4;
int sizeToMove = (boundary - index) * sizeof(MAX_STRING_SIZE);
memcpy(&array[index + 1], &array[index], sizeToMove);
free(array);