Re: [boost] [guid] - review results?

30 May 2007

      "Christian Henning" <chhenning@gmail.com> wrote in
news:949801310705291442q6067e19dsb0bd26722561b71f@mail.gmail.com:
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I like the way you circumvent the license problem. Rewriting. Cool
Thanks :)
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One question. One person reported that the uuid lib was quite slow in
comparison to C# for instance. Could you resolve that, too?
I did optimize the random-based create function.  It, of course, does
depend on the random number generator used. 

The uuid::create(engine) (using mt19937) is now a little faster then
.NET's.  For 10,000,000 calls to uuid::create(engine), I get 3.937s, and
for .NET's Guid::NewGuid(), I get 4.375s. 

The name-based uuid::create function has not been optimized.

Here are the tests I used:

#include "stdafx.h"
#using <mscorlib.dll>
using namespace System;

int _tmain()
{
    const int N = 10000000;
    DateTime t0 = DateTime::Now;
	for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
        Guid::NewGuid();
	}
    TimeSpan ts = DateTime::Now - t0;

    Console::WriteLine(ts.ToString());
    return 0;
}

and:

#include <boost\progress.hpp>
#include <boost\uuid.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/random.hpp>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    using namespace boost;
    const int N = 10000000;
    mt19937 engine;
    timer t1;

    for (int i=0; i<N; ++i) {
        uuid::create(engine);
    }

    std::cout << t1.elapsed() << '\n';

    return 0;
}
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Thanks for your great work,
Christian
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Andy.