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We were concerned with the speed of execution, and when the compilers optimisation did not kick in (as it should), I asked "Why?"
On the whole, I agree.
This is part of why the original posting was so sensless:
What good is a fast nonsense-loop, when all Java-applications have a sluggish GUI anyway?  
When the application has a bottleneck you determine it and fix it. Probably with a design change or a different algorithm.
But you certainly are not paied for doing the compilers work. It has to, and will, optimize code in a way I can not possibly do by hand.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
George Orwell, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", Opening words
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jhwurmbach wrote: We were concerned with the speed of execution, and when the compilers optimisation did not kick in (as it should), I asked "Why?"
how do you know it did not kick in? it may have assumed you needed that code. Some people use hard coded timing loops without external references as timing loops. It all depends on which compiler you use, what options you set, and what assumptions you allow your compiler to use. Knowing what this means to your code is very important. If you, as some people have, used dead-code as a sleep, then you may not want that optimized. Does your compiler have an option to remove unused code? See, it is more than a "magic" compile and it works.
jhwurmbach wrote: a different algorithm
exactly my point as a matter of fact. If you know your compiler optimizes certain algorithms faster than others, because it is able to understand the logic, you begin adapting your code algorithms to match the compiler without even knowing it. The problem with that is that when you compile the same code on a new compiler, suddenly the performance changes. The reason is either consciously or inadvertently you have tuned the code to match the optimization of that one compiler, not the new one. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of your own compiler is not a bad thing.
As I said, I understand that if you are not concerned with performance, you don't need to do this. But if you really are concerned with performance, writing code that cooperates with the optimization analysis of the compiler is certainly a good thing.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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It very much depends on the actual problem, and on the optimization settings you select, for C++. I would expect that a decent optimizer could detect that the operations within the loop cancel each other out and it might even conclude that the loop itself doesn't do anything, leaving you with no code whatever. Indeed, when run with the optimization options /Oxs, that is exactly what Visual Studio 2005 does. So in fact does Visual C++ 6.0.
I was trying to make it do more work, so asked it to print the final values of j and k. It simply passed the literals 5 and 5.0 into printf. I used the /FAs switch to generate an assembly listing with source code. This can be daunting if you're not familiar with x86 assembly, but it's pretty obvious that the compiler didn't generate any instructions for the loop. (It even did crazy tricks like loading the address of GetTickCount, which I used for time measurement, into a register!)
On my computer a debug build, with optimizations disabled, took 23 seconds to execute. The 'optimizations disabled' version is incredibly naive, as close to a literal translation as possible, and actually performs the operations as coded, although it performs some straightforward conversions (e.g. multiplying and dividing integers by 2 by bit-shifting, and using floating-point addition to multiply k by 2). It also stores results back into main memory rather than just leaving them in a register, for example.
Almost all Java implementations now use a JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler. This is able to perform some of the optimizations that a C++ compiler can do and so can eliminate some of the unnecessary operations (like avoiding write-back to memory for local variables), but not all.
If you want to do a real test, you'll have to actually make the operations somehow dependent on the value of the loop variable, so the compilers don't just throw the code away, and allow the C++ compiler to optimize the code.
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And where is the C++ code? I see only Java in your post. Also, which compiler are you using and what optimizations?
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You can write bad code in C++ and you can write bad code in Java. When you try to compare them you can deliberately show the advantages of either one over the other, but only for that example. It can give you a false sense of what each language is capable of. It is "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" type problem.
Seriously, if you are going to try to compare apples and oranges, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are. A good compiler can save you from some of your errors, but only so far.
how about 0.75 seconds for C++. If I turn on full analysis, as mentioned above, I get 0 seconds. Intel can figure out the loop never uses the variable entries and removes it as useless code. A print of the values of k and j at the end will keep the code. Oh... I forgot, that is on my slowest computer.... 
That is the point of understanding how the language and compiler/framework work together. If you only know the "syntax" of any language, you only know half of what you are doing.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Thats because java has an internal piece of code that gets inserted secretly that resembles this...
for (int i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++)
// ***************************
// Java specific internal code
if ((bInVeryBigLoop==true) && (bCodeServesNoObviousPurpose==true)) {
// User must be running a benchmark against c++
break;
}
// End java specific internal code
// *******************************
int j = 5;
j++;
j *= 2;
j /= 2;
j--;
double k = 5.0;
k++;
k *= 2;
k /= 2;
k--;
}
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This comes scaringly close to reality...
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
George Orwell, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", Opening words
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This is driving me mad.
I just started to get error C2664 for things I have been doing for years!
I have a Edit Box with a control variable m_cRange and a string used for formating data for these Edit boxes for display.
e.g.
CString g_szDisplayStr;<br />
CEdit m_cRange;<br />
double Range;<br />
Both these statements produce the C2664 error.
<br />
g_szDisplayStr.Format("%0.4f", Range);<br />
m_cRange.SetWindowText(g_szDisplayStr);
Have I screwed up by project settings; its MFC C++ Dialog application.
Andy.
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C2664 mentions two types. What are they? Is this a Unicode application?
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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The complier option Use UNICODE Response Files is Yes; but still get the error when set to No.
This line of code
g_szDisplayStr.Format("%8.4f", WGS84Latitude);
Gives the error below:-
Error 2 error C2664: 'void ATL::CStringT<BaseType,StringTraits>::Format(const wchar_t *,...)' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char [6]' to 'const wchar_t *' c:\model\model\modeldlg.cpp 546
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Andy202 wrote: This line of code
g_szDisplayStr.Format("%8.4f", WGS84Latitude);
Gives the error below:-
Because it should be:
g_szDisplayStr.Format(_T("%8.4f"), WGS84Latitude);
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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OK David thanks you.
But next stupid question, my previous program worked OK.
Has new system files for thw environment been dowloaded?
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With VS6, ANSI is the default. With VS200x, Unicode is the default.
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Thanks again David.
Just one final question.
When ever I create a control variable, it takes about 4 minutes. I think all PCs on the network are being accessed. I cannot find a setting to limit this activity.
Many thanks,
Andy.
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Andy202 wrote: When ever I create a control variable, it takes about 4 minutes.
Within the IDE?
Andy202 wrote: When ever I create a control variable...I think all PCs on the network are being accessed.
I'm not aware of any correlation between the two. Does unplugging the network cable have an effect?
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Yes, works OK with the cable unplugged.
and it is within the IDE.
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I am using MM_TEXT mode during Ondraw(CDC *pDC) function & displayed a rectangle but during printing i am using MM_TWIPS mapmode now i want to use CoOrdinate used during Ondraw.I tried to convert Co-ordnate into correct pixels. Here is code:
// during On draw
pDC->MoveTo(p1);
pDC->LineTo(p2);
pDC->LineTo(p3);
pDC->LineTo(p4);
pDC->LineTo(p1);
// some macro
#define CalibPoint(p, HorPix,VerPix) CPoint(CALIBX(p.x,HorPix),CALIBY(p.y,VerPix))
#define CALIBX(point,HPIX) (point * HPIX )/PIXPERINCH
#define CALIBY(point,VPIX) (point * VPIX )/PIXPERINCH
#define PIXPERINCH 72
int nHorz = pDC->GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSX);
int nVert = pDC->GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSY);
//during printing
p1=CalibPoint(p1, nHorz,nVert);//CalibPoint is Macro
p2=CalibPoint(p2, nHorz,nVert);
p3=CalibPoint(p3, nHorz,nVert);
p4=CalibPoint(p4, nHorz,nVert);
pDC->MoveTo(p1.x,-p1.y);
pDC->LineTo(p2.x,-p2.y);
pDC->LineTo(p3.x,-p3.y);
pDC->LineTo(p4.x,-p4.y);
pDC->LineTo(p1.x,-p1.y);
Thanks & regards
priyank Dwivedi
priyank
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Whats the difference between
Use Mfc in Static Library and
Use Mfc in Shared Dll.
what is achieved after specifing either of thses two?
Thanks in advance....
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The shared dll option will use the existing mfc dlls on the machine on which execution is going on. If you don't have the dlls it wont' execute.
The static library option will attach the code of mfc dlls in you executable so you will not need the dlls.
But the drawback of static linking is that the overall size of executable will be increased.
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While the static library name may be hard to understand, the "shared dll" bit should be easier!
An EXE is the program you're running. It can also use DLLs, which other EXEs can use - hence shared DLLs. If you're struggling with that idea, then this is not the right forum for you.
In this case, your program will reference the MFC DLL(s). This could be MFC42U.dll for example. But this may or may not be on a system, so you'd need to put it there - and what if a bad person overwrites it? And is it will contain every MFC class and code, it will be quite large.
The alternative is to link all the MFC functions into your EXE. It will now be larger than before, but more selfcontained. And not as large as the EXE and DLL were before.
Which you use is heaviliy dependent on other conditions. Ease of install, whether the DLLs already exist on the system (which is a given with older versions of MFC). Will this be downloaded over a slow internet connection? etc.
There is no black or white, good or bad answer. Welcome to programming - land of compromises and cost-benefit analysis.
Iain.
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i would use shared DLL usually but the main problem which i faced as an AMATUER programmer was tht my program wont run on my friend system! so static DLL helped me out! though the size of the exe incresed to few MBytes but atleast i got STANDALONE application 
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How to convert double value to float value.
please look at the following code
double dDoubleValue = 200.55000000.
float fFloatValue = (float)dDoubleValue;
output will be 200.54999999, but i need exact value 200.55000000.
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Sakthi_Vel wrote: but i need exact value 200.55000000
floating point numbers are never exact.
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You can use FLT_EPSILON.
For more information visit here[^]
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round it when you are showing the value.
Russell
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