Microsoft Visual Studio update soups up C/C++ programming
With the release candidate for the latest version of its Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft is offering better C/C++ operations and has fixed a number of performance issues.
Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC, released late last week, improves C/C++ runtime library performance in a number of common operations. "For example, extracting floating point numbers with iostreams is up to nineteen times faster," John Montgomery, Microsoft director of program management for Visual Studio, said in a blog post. "Certain string operations are also faster, especially std::string::replace when replacing same-sized substrings." C++ projects load faster as well.
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