[Dev-C++] RE: C versus C++

[Ioannis V. <no...@ya...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ioannis Vranos [mailto:no...@ya...] 
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 8:11 AM
> To: Dev-C++ (dev...@li...)
> Subject: C versus C++
> 
> 
> It is great you are interested for the reality of the things. 
> :) At first your code had some errors (for 100% ansi 
> standard) and omitions (you forgot #include <iostream> for 
> example) which i fixed. I did not dare to see your code and 
> think how exactly your algorithm work but the results showed 
> the C++ versions to be slower than C's.
> 
> I attach you your code fixed as old.cpp.
> 
> I wrote my code using the standard library sorting function 
> thus applying the same algorithm to both stuff. The code is 
> attached as 
> temp.cpp.
> 
> The results are:
> 
> C:\c>temp
> begin: 2002 cend: 24885 cppend: 47558
> 
> char * sorting speed: 22883 std::string sorting speed: 22673
> 
> As you see the string speed here is smaller than char *. :)

I made an expression mistake, these are timings and here string is
*faster* than char *.


Ioannis

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