From: James Undery Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: [Q]Computing speed in C++ Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:36:56 +0000 Organization: None unless you want to pay me Message-ID: References: <34FCB769 DOT 42BEF1A8 AT gong DOT snu DOT ac DOT kr> <34FD3174 DOT 2401F904 AT gong DOT snu DOT ac DOT kr> Reply-To: ghoti AT nospam DOT demon DOT co DOT uk NNTP-Posting-Host: ghoti.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 15 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk In article <34FD3174 DOT 2401F904 AT gong DOT snu DOT ac DOT kr>, Bum-Seok Hyun writes >In C code, I just moved variable definitions >into the first line of the code. Why, a fairer comparison of C and C++ is to compile the C as C++ >I don't think that makes musch difference between C++ and C. Yes it does, or certainly would do with objects. 'j' would be constructed (and destructed) 10000 times and 'k' 100000 times. That said the C++ is still slower 22s (25s using your code) compared to 16s (on my system). -- James Undery