Re: How to make this program more efficient?
On Sep 13, 6:38 pm, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
Jerry Coffin wrote:
In article <TcSdnUV3p4REGlbVnZ2dneKdnZydn...@bt.com>,
j...@ffconsultancy.com says...
Bill David wrote:
SUBJECT: How to make this program more efficient?
Unless you mean "within the confines of C++" the most
obvious improvement would be to use an immutable map
because they greatly reduce the locking required and can
even completely eliminate it.
It's entirely possible to create an immutable map in C++,
and from a viewpoint of thread safety, it can have the same
basic properties as an immutable map in any other language.
Efficient immutable data structures rely heavily upon
efficient allocation and garbage collection. C++ has neither
If you don't want it to. I've used garbage collection with C++,
and it works quite well. For almost all applications, it's a
definite win in terms of development times and robustness, and
for a lot of applications, it's also a win in terms of
performance, and for others, it's a win in terms of perceived
performance, even if total performance isn't as good.
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