[Remnant44]

If you enable /Ox, the codegen basically drops to what you would expect: the vector version drops down essentially identical code to the new/delete (modulo a memset to enforce the clear to zero condition)

It is a good illustration of why debug stl builds are such hot garbage though...

[gmueckl]

It is a good illustration for why using the STL is not always a good idea: you can't blindly take the perf hit from that kind of overhead in a debuggable build of a game that you still want to run at reasonably interactive frame rates.

[jfkebwjsbx]

False, most standard libraries out there allow you to configure whether you want extra checks or not.

[gmueckl]

But at least in the case of MSVC that comfiguration option leads to binary incompatibilities that make it an all or nothing option for everything that gets linked together statically. And the checks are so heavy that the "all" option becomes unbearably slow quite quickly. If your project hits a reasonable size, you end up requiring some clever solutions.