Re: Newby C++ vs. C question

From:
"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:14:04 -0400
Message-ID:
<f8njjr$adg$1@news.datemas.de>
alexrixhardson@yahoo.com wrote:

I am a newby in the C/C++ world, and I am beginning to work on a
rather simple TCP/IP proxy application which must be able to handle
large volume of data as quickly as possible.

Since this application has to process and distribute plain text around
the network, I am wondering if there are any peformance differences
between C++ std::string and C char[] in run time?


Yes, there are. Not significant, but some.

Which one would you suggest me to use for my particular task (TCP/IP
proxy which is distributing plain text around the nextwork that
is :-) )?


Sorry, I don't do C, so suggest C++ regardless of the task.

Thanks, Alex

p.s.: here're two examples that I found on the Internet for which I am
wondering if there are any performance differences between them:

==========================
C function returning a copy
==========================
char *fnConvert(int _ii)
{
  char *str = malloc(10); /* Return 10 character string */
  if(str == NULL)
     fprintf(stderr,"Error: Memory allocation failed.\n");
  sprintf(str, "%d", _ii);
  return str;
}

==========================
C++ function returning a copy
==========================
string fnConvert(int _ii)
{
  ostringstream ost;
  ost << _ii;
  return ost.str();
}


Yes, there are differences, in general. As to _what_ those are, you
would need to measure to see.

V
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