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Benchmark different technologies

I was talking to a few friends about doing a project in Mono (an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET). Someone said that if it were just for Windows, we should use .NET instead, for a ...
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What performance can we expect from std::string's c_str()? Always constant time?

I've been doing some needed optimizations lately. One thing I've been doing is changing some ostringstreams -> sprintfs. I'm sprintf'ing a bunch of std::strings to a c style array, ala char foo[500]; ...