One option is have temp buffer start some known size then increase it if see it’s not enough with vsnprintf. Are there better approach? Thanks
您可以使用vasprintf(),但这会进行不必要的堆分配 – 平均来说不太可能更快.使用alloca可以避免堆.或者,您可以直接写入返回的字符串:NRVO应该避免复制,并且从C 11开始,移动语义会将成本sans-NRVO限制为几个指针交换.
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std::string stringf(const char* format, ...)
{
va_list arg_list;
va_start(arg_list, format);
// SUSv2 version doesn't work for buf NULL/size 0, so try printing
// into a small buffer that avoids the double-rendering and alloca path too...
char short_buf[256];
const size_t needed = vsnprintf(short_buf, sizeof short_buf,
format, arg_list) + 1;
if (needed <= sizeof short_buf)
return short_buf;
// need more space...
// OPTION 1
std::string result(needed, ' ');
vsnprintf(result.data(), needed, format, arg_list);
return result; // RVO ensures this is cheap
OR
// OPTION 2
char* p = static_cast(alloca(needed)); // on stack
vsnprintf(p, needed, format, arg_list);
return p; // text copied into returned string
}
int main()
{
std::string s = stringf("test '%s', n %8.2f\n", "hello world", 3.14);
std::cout << s;
}
一个更简单,最初更快的选择是:
std::string result(255, ' '); // 255 spaces + NUL
const size_t needed = vsnprintf(result.data(), result.size() + 1,
format, arg_list);
result.resize(needed); // may truncate, leave or extend...
if (needed > 255) // needed doesn't count NUL
vsnprintf(result.data(), needed + 1, format, arg_list);
return result;
潜在的问题是你分配了至少256个字符,但是存储的实际文本很短:这可能会增加你的内存/缓存相关性能.您可以使用[shrink_to_fit] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/shrink_to_fit)解决该问题,但标准并不要求它实际执行任何操作(要求是“非绑定”).如果您最终必须复制到一个新的精确大小的字符串,您可能也使用了本地char数组.