30.09.2011, 14:57, "Kent Hansen" <[email protected]>:

>  Hi,
>  You might have seen Thiago's blog about QStringLiteral [1], and his idea
>  on replacing QLatin1String usage by QStringLiteral in Qt (where possible).
>
>  I like the idea, but wanted to do some benchmarking first to get an
>  impression of the performance impact. [2]
>
>  My results so far (on Linux 32-bit) indicate that QString::appends are
>  way faster when switching to using QStringLiteral: 7x faster than
>  QLatin1String for a 2-character literal and 14x for a ~50-character literal.
>
>  Now, the not-so-good news: operator==(QString) is a bit (just a bit)
>  slower than operator==(QLatin1String) for short strings.
>  It seems that, for short strings, the overhead of calling qMemEquals()
>  and performing its "housecleaning chores" outweigh the benefits of its
>  fast comparison loop.
>
>  In other words, if someone were to optimize QString::operator==(QString)
>  to perform better for small strings, the total replacement would be a
>  done deal.

Great news! Is it possible to use this superfast QStringLiteral with Qt 4.x?


-- 
Regards,
Konstantin
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