Alex Ott wrote a fascinating blog post about Boost.Spirit v2.x’s integer parser performance compared to standard C’s ‘atoi’, in one example of how C++ is faster than C in some cases. He writes:
I did very primitive test of performance for new version of boost.spirit. I read somewhere...
While catching up on my C++ reading, I chanced upon this article from Intel Software Network by Dr. *** Brown of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota which is basically pointing out the writing on the wall which I’ve already pointed out to colleagues while I was still in college. From the...