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Re: Suggested improvement to std::list
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:10:38PM +0100, Gawain Bolton wrote:
> Yes I've done some performance testing on sparc-sun-solaris2.6 and can
> tell you that roughly:
>
> 1. Default std::list constructor is 2 orders of magnitude faster.
> 2. std::list::swap() is 4 times slower.
>
> Your mileage will vary, according to how expensive it is to allocate
> dynamic memory on your system and how fragmented your system's memory is
> at the time of the test.
I'd like to hear what Matt Austern has to say about this. If he's happy,
I'm happy (R^2 == 0.8).
Nathan Myers
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