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Re: Fast swapping of STL containers

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On 2011-06-24 06:09:10 -0400, Ian Collins said:

> On 06/24/11 09:58 PM, ittium wrote:
> 
> Please don't snip attributions!
> 
>  > On 06/24/11 09:27 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
>> 
>>> Well come on, it's the library author's job to write efficient code.  If
>>> they didn't, users would soon complain.  They have implementation
>>> specific short cuts available to them that we users do not.
>>> 
>> 
>> For most of the cases, You are right. When a operation is likely to
>> take place large number of times per second than exact processing
>> complexity becomes very important.
> 
> What difference does the number of calls make?  The operation is either 
> efficient, or it isn't.

The more it's called, the more likely it is to be a bottleneck. If I 
only call a function once, it doesn't matter whether it takes 1 ms or 2 
ms.

-- 
  Pete
Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The 
Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference 
(www.petebecker.com/tr1book)

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Fast swapping of STL containers ittium <ittium@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 06:45 -0700
  Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-06-23 10:05 -0400
    Re: Fast swapping of STL containers gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 08:07 -0700
      Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Rune Allnor <allnor@tele.ntnu.no> - 2011-06-23 22:49 -0700
        Re: Fast swapping of STL containers ittium <ittium@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 02:16 -0700
          Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-24 21:27 +1200
            Re: Fast swapping of STL containers ittium <ittium@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 02:58 -0700
              Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-24 22:09 +1200
                Re: Fast swapping of STL containers ittium <ittium@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 03:29 -0700
                Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-24 22:44 +1200
                Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Kai-Uwe Bux <jkherciueh@gmx.net> - 2011-06-24 13:25 +0200
                Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-24 23:35 +1200
                Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> - 2011-06-24 07:34 -0400
          Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Kai-Uwe Bux <jkherciueh@gmx.net> - 2011-06-24 13:34 +0200
        Re: Fast swapping of STL containers gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 03:26 -0700
          Re: Fast swapping of STL containers ittium <ittium@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 03:30 -0700
            Re: Fast swapping of STL containers gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 04:01 -0700
              Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com> - 2011-06-24 07:37 -0400
                Re: Fast swapping of STL containers gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 06:11 -0700
  Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Werner <werasm@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 02:29 -0700
    Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Werner <werasm@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 04:51 -0700
  Re: Fast swapping of STL containers hanukas <jukka@liimatta.org> - 2011-06-29 05:29 -0700
    Re: Fast swapping of STL containers Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-06-29 15:45 +0000
      Re: Fast swapping of STL containers hanukas <jukka@liimatta.org> - 2011-06-30 23:46 -0700

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