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From: Johan Lindvall (johan.lindvall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-25 06:30:25
>About the benchmark : it was taking a lot of time before, because the
>NullStream class was not compiling with MSVC and it had been replaced by
>a stringstream, whose buffer was not emptied between each iteration of
>the 10.000xloop.
>it seems MSVC is bad at growing stringstream's internal buffer
>dynamically 10.000 times.
FWIW, this is a known VC6 problem, which has been addressed. I quote from
http://www.dinkumware.com/vc_fixes.html :
"class basic_stringbuf grows its buffer by fixed-size increments, which can
be very slow if the buffer gets very large."
The fix is listed on the quoted page.
/Johan.
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