Re: C++ vs C
Jorgen Grahn skrev den 2014-07-26 12:22:
On Sat, 2014-07-26, Stuart wrote:
On 2014-07-24, JiiPee wrote:
[snip]
I was considering using STL bitset- class to handle bit-operations in a
game engine (like a board represented using a 128 bit integer). Then I
used a for loop to test how fast bitset is doing those (normally done by
C language bit operations) and found that it was very slow. So I used C
language bit operations instead. So we need to know which C++
classes/functions are as fast as corresponding C version ones.
On 07/24/14, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
I don't think I've used std::bitset and I don't know how you use it
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here I should point out that I meant I don't know what the OP uses it
/for/. It's true that I don't know much about std::bitset, but I
could just look it up. It doesn't look very interesting.
... but it shouldn't be much slower that doing similar things
manually.
+1. Even though I have done some bitwise arithmetic, I have never used
std::bitset. Didn't even know it existed. Plain old C bitwise operations
were always good enough for me and I have always had the feeling that I
knew what was going on.
I did look it up, and it doesn't seem to have many advantages over a
home-made bit container (which you can also tweak to suit your
application).
It does allow you to declare a bitset<247>, should you ever need one of
those. Writing a *portable* one yourself is kind of tricky.
Using a bitset<32>, on the other hand, doesn't buy you anything.
It's not resizable and doesn't have iterators, so it
doesn't mix with <algorithm> either.
We have vector<bool> for that, with another set of trade-offs.
Bo Persson
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