Re: C++ vs C

From:
Bo Persson <bop@gmb.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:27:05 +0200
Message-ID:
<c3hol6FommbU1@mid.individual.net>
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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