on the speed of std::string::find

[Paolo Carlini]

Paolo Carlini wrote:

> Dennis Lubert wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently did some profiling of my application (compiled with gcc 4.1)
>> using callgrind (part of valgrind). I found out that the good old
>> std::strstr is between 4 and 20 times faster than std::string::find.
>>
> First, which version of gcc are you using? Recent versions simply 
> delegate to the std::search in <algorithm>, which was benchmarked to 
> be much faster than an algorithm based on char_traits::find, thus 
> memchr, basically.

Actually, the old algorithm was based on char_traits::compare, thus 
memcmp. Anyway...

Paolo.