"Thorsten Ottosen" <tottosen@dezide.com> wrote in message news:drraqn$pok$1@sea.gmane.org...
have you tried to benchmark fixed_string compared to std::string with the short string optimization?
is fixed_string really faster?
-Thorsten
Thorsten, the biggest problem I have found with libraries that offer this optimization, and I am glad that VC++ 7.1's is one of them, is that the definition of "short" is non-configurable, except by changing a very important header file. Even if a change to that header file is made, there is no guarantee that the compiler actually reads the header file and does not have its contents hardcoded when an include directive for that header file is seen in source code, since the header file is a "standard" (i.e. included with the compiler) header file. For example, in VC++, IIRC, it is set to somewhere in the neighborhood of 15. I would much rather that they upped this value to 31 or 63, or somewhere thereabouts. Michael Goldshteyn