Re: Vectors vs Arrays performance

From:

James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 11:04:03 -0800 (PST)

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On Jan 2, 2:49 pm, "Leigh Johnston" <le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:

Accessing a vector's contents via operator[] will always be
slightly slower than accessing a local (stack based) array via
[] as you have to dereference a pointer with the vector
version.

That's bullshit. You have to dereference a pointer in both
cases. In the case of indexing, you have to calculate the
address (both for stack based and for std::vector), and because
these calculations are hidden in some functions with std::vector
(and probably do bounds checking as well), it's harder for the
optimizer to get its hands on them. On the other hand, if
you're using iterators, your code with std::vector is basically
what the optimizer will do with indexing into a built-in array.

So it all depends on the compiler. What will make a difference,
generally, is that when debug information is turned on and the
optimizer is turned off, most compilers will not inline. And
everything you do in std::vector involves a function call; if
that's not inlined, you could very well end up paying in
performance.

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James Kanze

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