Looking for STL benchmark code

[Steve]

Hi,

I'm currently looking a porting our Windows Codewarrior based C++ projects
to MinGW and/or Visual Studio and I'm just wondering if there is a
'standard' suite of benchmark programs I can download and compile on the
various environments that will give me an idea on the relative performance
of each STL?

For example - a test program that will run through, say, appending one
character to a string 1000000 times, copying vectors, pushing and popping on
deques and lists, that sort of thing. What other things should I be looking
at to stress-test the STL?

Any pointers to anything that exists already will be most helpful.

Thanks.

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Regards,
Steve.

[Thomas Tutone]

Steve wrote:

> ...I'm just wondering if there is a

> 'standard' suite of benchmark programs I can download and compile on the
> various environments that will give me an idea on the relative performance
> of each STL?
>
> For example - a test program that will run through, say, appending one
> character to a string 1000000 times, copying vectors, pushing and popping on
> deques and lists, that sort of thing. What other things should I be looking
> at to stress-test the STL?

When you say "STL," I'm assuming you literally mean the STL - that is,
the Standard Template Library - and not the C++ Standard Library. If
so, the traditional benchmark is the Stepanov benchmark, designed by
the Alex Stepanov (the original creator of the STL) to measure
abstraction penalties. It's a little dated, and you need to update it
to standard C++ (it was written in the mid-90's), but still quite
interesting. You can find a version here:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/computing/benchmark/stepanov.html

Or google for "Stepanov benchmark"

Best regards,

Tom

[Alex Vinokur]

Steve wrote in message http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/msg/23b25bc6a6b7296e

Look at C/C++ Program Perfometer
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cpp-perfometer-users
that contains various testsuites ( http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cpp-perfometer-users )

Alex Vinokur
email: alex DOT vinokur AT gmail DOT com
http://mathforum.org/library/view/10978.html
http://sourceforge.net/users/alexvn

[Alex Vinokur]

"Alex Vinokur" wrote in message news:debong$1il$1...@reader.greatnowhere.com...
[snip]

> Look at C/C++ Program Perfometer
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cpp-perfometer-users
> that contains various testsuites ( http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cpp-perfometer-users )

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.il.hebrew.vc/msg/35be35e504b0c84b
[snip]

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