Why is splitting a string slower in C++ than Python?

Question

I\'m trying to convert some code from Python to C++ in an effort to gain a little bit of speed and sharpen my rusty C++ skills. Yesterday I was shocked when a naive impleme

Answer 1

You're making the mistaken assumption that your chosen C++ implementation is necessarily faster than Python's. String handling in Python is highly optimized. See this question for more: Why do std::string operations perform poorly?