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    copied!<p>I'm trying to optimize my C++ code. I've searched the internet on using dynamically allocated C++ arrays vs using std::vector and have generally seen a recommendation in favor of std::vector and that the difference in performance between the two is negligible. For instance here - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/381621/using-arrays-or-stdvectors-in-c-whats-the-performance-gap">Using arrays or std::vectors in C++, what&#39;s the performance gap?</a>. </p> <p>However, I wrote some code to test the performance of iterating through an array/vector and assigning values to the elements and I generally found that using dynamically allocated arrays was nearly 3 times faster than using vectors (I did specify a size for the vectors beforehand). I used g++-4.3.2.</p> <p>However I feel that my test may have ignored issues I don't know about so I would appreciate any advice on this issue.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Code used - </p> <pre><code>#include &lt;time.h&gt; #include &lt;iostream&gt; #include &lt;vector&gt; using namespace std; int main() { clock_t start,end; std::vector&lt;int&gt; vec(9999999); std::vector&lt;int&gt;::iterator vecIt = vec.begin(); std::vector&lt;int&gt;::iterator vecEnd = vec.end(); start = clock(); for (int i = 0; vecIt != vecEnd; i++) { *(vecIt++) = i; } end = clock(); cout&lt;&lt;"vector: "&lt;&lt;(double)(end-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC&lt;&lt;endl; int* arr = new int[9999999]; start = clock(); for (int i = 0; i &lt; 9999999; i++) { arr[i] = i; } end = clock(); cout&lt;&lt;"array: "&lt;&lt;(double)(end-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC&lt;&lt;endl; } </code></pre>
 

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