char[] to hex string exercise

Question

Below is my current char* to hex string function. I wrote it as an exercise in bit manipulation. It takes ~7ms on a AMD Athlon MP 2800+ to hexify a 10 million byte array. Is

Answer 1

The function as it is shown when I'm writing this produces incorrect output even when _hex2asciiU_value is fully specified. The following code works, and on my 2.33GHz Macbook Pro runs in about 1.9 seconds for 200,000,000 million characters.

#include 

using namespace std;

static const size_t _h2alen = 256;
static char _hex2asciiU_value[_h2alen][3];

string char_to_hex( const unsigned char* _pArray, unsigned int _len )
{
    string str;
    str.resize(_len*2);
    char* pszHex = &str[0];
    const unsigned char* pEnd = _pArray + _len;
    const char* pHex = _hex2asciiU_value[0];
    for( const unsigned char* pChar = _pArray; pChar != pEnd; pChar++, pszHex += 2 ) {
       pszHex[0] = _hex2asciiU_value[*pChar][0];
       pszHex[1] = _hex2asciiU_value[*pChar][1];
    }
    return str;
}


int main() {
  for(int i=0; i<_h2alen; i++) {
    snprintf(_hex2asciiU_value[i], 3,"%02X", i);
  }
  size_t len = 200000000;
  char* a = new char[len];
  string t1;
  string t2;
  clock_t start;
  srand(time(NULL));
  for(int i=0; i " << (clock() - start)/(double)CLOCKS_PER_SEC << " seconds\n";
}