Performance Question

[BCC]

Why the huge drop in performance in STL from VC6.0 to VC7.1? Particularly
with vector?

The following code shows what I mean...

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
B

//Test the speed of operations on primitive arrays and vectors
#pragma warning(disable: 4786)

#include <vector>
#include <time.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

typedef vector<int> IntVec;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
clock_t start, finish;
start = clock();
const int dim1 = 1000;
const int dim2 = 10000;

int* matrix[dim1];
for(int i = 0; i < dim1; i++)
{
matrix = new int[dim2];
for(int j = 0; j < dim2; j++)
matrix[j] = j;
}

finish = clock();
cout << "Total time taken for " << dim1 << "x" << dim2;
cout << " int array operations: ";
cout << double(finish-start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC << " seconds" << endl;
for( i = 0; i < dim1; i++)
{
delete[] matrix;
}

start = clock();

vector<IntVec> intvecs(dim1);
for( i = 0; i < dim1; i++)
{
intvecs.resize(dim2);
for(int j = 0; j < dim2; j++)
intvecs[j] = j;
}

finish = clock();
cout << "Total time taken for " << dim1 << "x" << dim2;
cout << " int vector operations: ";
cout << double(finish-start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC << " seconds" << endl;

return 0;
}

/**
*
==========================

output from VC6.0:

Total time taken for 1000x10000 int array operations: 0.12 seconds
Total time taken for 1000x10000 int vector operations: 0.14 seconds

==========================

output from VC7.1:

Total time taken for 1000x10000 int array operations: 0.12 seconds
Total time taken for 1000x10000 int vector operations: 1.231 seconds
==========================

*/

 

[Jonathan Turkanis]

Why the huge drop in performance in STL from VC6.0 to VC7.1? Particularly
with vector?

The following code shows what I mean...

Here are my results:

VC7.1:

Total time taken for 1000x10000 int array operations: 0.062 seconds
Total time taken for 1000x10000 int vector operations: 0.094 seconds

VC6.5:

Total time taken for 1000x10000 int array operations: 0.062 seconds
Total time taken for 1000x10000 int vector operations: 0.235 seconds

Are you sure you have optimizations turned on?

Jonathan

 

[Andre Kostur]

Why the huge drop in performance in STL from VC6.0 to VC7.1?
Particularly with vector?

The following code shows what I mean...

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
B

//Test the speed of operations on primitive arrays and vectors
#pragma warning(disable: 4786)

#include <vector>
#include <time.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

typedef vector<int> IntVec;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
clock_t start, finish;
start = clock();
const int dim1 = 1000;
const int dim2 = 10000;

int* matrix[dim1];
for(int i = 0; i < dim1; i++)
{
matrix = new int[dim2];
for(int j = 0; j < dim2; j++)
matrix[j] = j;
}

finish = clock();
cout << "Total time taken for " << dim1 << "x" << dim2;
cout << " int array operations: ";
cout << double(finish-start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC << " seconds" << endl;
for( i = 0; i < dim1; i++)
{
delete[] matrix;
}

start = clock();

vector<IntVec> intvecs(dim1);
for( i = 0; i < dim1; i++)
{
intvecs.resize(dim2);
for(int j = 0; j < dim2; j++)
intvecs[j] = j;
}

finish = clock();
cout << "Total time taken for " << dim1 << "x" << dim2;
cout << " int vector operations: ";
cout << double(finish-start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC << " seconds" << endl;

return 0;
}

/**
*
==========================

output from VC6.0:

Total time taken for 1000x10000 int array operations: 0.12 seconds
Total time taken for 1000x10000 int vector operations: 0.14 seconds

==========================

output from VC7.1:

Total time taken for 1000x10000 int array operations: 0.12 seconds
Total time taken for 1000x10000 int vector operations: 1.231 seconds
==========================

*/

Well... 2 things
1) This is compiler-specific, thus offtopic for comp.lang.c++
2) Were these compiled in "release" mode and not "debug" mode?