Re: I'm Shocked

From:
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:44:02 +0100
Message-ID:
<55109qF235kmcU1@mid.individual.net>
* Old Wolf:

On Mar 3, 11:24 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <a...@start.no> wrote:

Bas wrote:

 Test *ar[30000000];
 for(long int j = 0; j< 30000000; j++)
    ar[j] = new Test;

         std::vector<Test> v( 30000000 );


The thing being benchmarked was 30000000 small allocations.
Your suggested code performs 1 large allocation.

(I'm sure you know this; but just clearing it up for other readers who
may not).


Yes. The point is that for a an ordinary C# 'class' object (reference
semantics) you have to do those 30M separate allocations to have the 30M
objects you need, whatever the reason could be for that need, whereas in
C++ you can do just one big allocation. So as a /language/ comparision
this one decidedly favors C++, some millions times faster than C#.

I think if the comparision is meaningful in any way, then that way must
be it.

Cheers,

- Alf

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