22–28 May 2016
MEDILS in Split, Croatia
Europe/Zurich timezone

New versus malloc

27 May 2016, 15:00

Description

"new[] isn't always better", aka "Don't trust your compiler". During a code optimization exercise we very slowly discovered that a seemingly innocent C++ 'new double[n]' construct was up to a factor of ten slower than an archaic 'malloc'.

Speaker

Jan Justinus Keijser

Presentation materials