Re: slow startup on windows

So this begs the question.

If the strings are never displayed, why not std::string?

On 10/25/2024 10:43 AM, John Selverian wrote:
> The program is a database where everything is stored as strings,
> they're all wrapped in classes, so its actually stored as a 4D
> array of classes. When it's running it takes 235 MB in memory.
>
> The strings are not displayed in the UI.
>
> I timed this:
>
> 	FXString* tmp;
> 	long num = 500000;
> 	//long num = 5000000;
> 	for (long i = 0; i < num; i++)
> 	{
> 		tmp = new FXString("test string");
> 		delete tmp;
> 	}
>
> For num = 500,000 it's somewhere around 1 second, for num =
> 5,000,000 takes about 3 seconds. I also used a longer string
> ("test string test string test string test string test string
> test string test string test string ") and saw no effect. I'm
> just timing in the debugger with a stopwatch, nothing fancy so
> the times are only approximate but clearly noticeable.
>
>
> Js
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2024 10:55 AM
> To: Enno Rehling <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Foxgui-users] slow startup on windows
>
> On 2024-10-25 09:27, Enno Rehling wrote:
>> I second what Roland says, don't load all those strings into
> memory,
>> or at least not into FXString objects, if you can at all help
> it.
>
> Definitely true, but we have sh*tloads of ram these days and I
> could load the complete works of william shakespeare in RAM and
> not remotely tax the amount of memory of even a raspberry pi.
>
> At an average sentence length of 80 bytes, times 500,000 is only
> 40 MB.
> Size of a single uncompressed 4K image...
>
> It *is* a lot of mallocs() if each of these is an individual
> block, each taking perhaps 2000 cycles to allocate, so on a 1GHz
> CPU takes around 1 second.
>
> 40MB at modern RAM speeds may take around 1ms to write to RAM,
> but it will take less because modern CPUs have L3 caches bigger
> than 40MB so it'll be all cached.
>
> Basically, there's almost nothing you can do with text that would
> even remotely tax a modern machine...
>
>
>     -- JVZ
>
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