[boost] Re: Performance improvements to std::string

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-22 18:49:48

Anders Hybertz <mailgroups_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi
>
> I'm sitting and reading an article in the latest Dr. Dobb's Journal - 
> October 2003 issue.
>
> There is quite an interesting article on "C++ String Performance" -
> the guy has made some kind of string implementation that performs
> between 2 and 25.000 times better than the std:string or
> std::basic_string<T>. Especially the performance gains in
> multithreaded application is outstanding.
>
> His ideas are pretty good, but he uses the std::string implementation
> in gcc 2.96 to compare against so the std::string classes might
> already have been improved - but maybe not.

Hmm, reminds me of http://tinyurl.com/rwzq

Different guy, same claims (roughly).  I wonder if he's done a more
principled job?  Here's some associated code:

http://tinyurl.com/rx06

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