I read somewhere that snprintf is faster than ostringstream. Has anyone has any experiences with it? If yes why is it faster.
I read somewhere that snprintf is faster than ostringstream. Has anyone has any experiences
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I read somewhere that snprintf is faster than ostringstream. Has anyone has any experiences with it? If yes why is it faster.
std::ostringstreamis not required to be slower, but it is generally slower when implemented. FastFormat’s website has some benchmarks.The Standard library design for streams supports much more than
snprintfdoes. The design is meant to be extensible, and includesprotectedvirtualmethods that are called by the publicly exposed methods. This allows you to derive from one of the stream classes, with the assurance that if you overload theprotected method you will get the behavior you want. I believe that a compiler could avoid the overhead of thevirtualfunction call, but I’m not aware of any compilers that do.Additionally, stream operations often use growable buffers internally; which implies relatively slow memory allocations.