Re: Vs2008 macros: Sorting lines in a file [OT?]

From:

"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>

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microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:08:19 -0500

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On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:02:02 -0500, "Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>
wrote:

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:39:30 +0200, "Giovanni Dicanio"
<gdicanio@_NOSPAM_email_DOT_it> wrote:

What about using std::vector< shared_ptr< string > > instead of std::vector<
string > ?

This should make the reallocation and deep-copy problems less important,
correct?

It'll be the same then as for CString, i.e. depending on the
implementation, shared_ptr will use InterlockedXXX operations at best and
CRITICAL_SECTION operations at worst to make copying thread-safe. If the
goal is to be faster than map, I wouldn't go that way, because it would be
trading ease of implementation for a less than maximal speed increase.
Also, depending on the implementation of shared_ptr, it might also
sacrifice much of the memory usage improvement. That is, if shared_ptr
dynamically allocates an int to represent the reference count, the
shared_ptr overhead is similar to map node overhead and might even be worse
fragmentation-wise compared to a map that uses a pool allocator. I really
would try to stick to storing simple types in a vector for a problem like
this.

And it will be even worse if most of the strings are short, such that the
short string optimization is applied. Using a shared_ptr such as the one
that comes with VC2008 would introduce dynamic memory allocation for
storing these strings, where there was none before.

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

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