How the Heck does my RPI3 Complete a Program 1200% Faster than my HP Probook??

[ElEscalador]

I wrote my first navigation/collision avoidance program in c++...I wrote it on my windows laptop (1.6ghz, 8gb ram, 64 bit, windows 10) in visual studio - intended to end up in my robot. Since it was my own code (based on A Star algorithm) I knew it wouldn't be the most efficient, but it was taking 1-5 minutes to find a path when run from visual studio. I was afraid this would translate to 10-30 minutes on the rpi in my robot, so I uploaded the exact same program to a PI3, added a stopwatch to each, and ran it with the exact same inputs (start, target, simulated obstacles). Much to my surprise, the windows machine was still running and the PI3 found a path almost instantly - way less than a second. I tried a few times and each time, both machines return the same waypoint list, but the pi is faaaaast and the windows machine is like snail-mail (typical - windows 120 seconds, RPI <1 second). I presume this has something to do with visual studio and not the hardware, but I am curious....who knows why this is happening? Is there anything I can do to make the windows machine run the program fast like that? I don't have a bunch of other stuff running except Chrome (that I know of...I have recently run Malwarebytes). This can't all be because of bloatware...can it? The machine runs fine for all my other purposes.

[mooblie]

"Overheads."

[jamesh]

Sounds like the windows build might be a debug build.

[mikerr]

Probably debug build, there's a huge amount of expensive runtime checks enabled by default
such as out-of-bounds array indexing and memory overrun detection

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2011/ ... slowdowns/

(although for some code it can be 100x slowdown.. debug is meant to debug, not for general use)

Try release build, also
Project Settings, then go to C++/Preprocessor, add _SECURE_SCL=0

[ElEscalador]

I had tried compiling as release and running the exe to no improvement, but whatever "_SECURE_SCL=0" does fixed it right up. I haven't compared run times again to the Pi, but now when I'm testing code on the windows /VS machine it's executing in a few seconds compared to 2-3 minutes. Thanks!

[ab1jx]

Superior operating system. But 1.8 GHz and how many cores? Is 8 GB enough for Windows 10? I've never seen it. Sounds like you loaded modern bloatware onto an old machine. Is it swapping out? I have one friend that liked to do that, just had to have the latest software even if the machine couldn't handle it.

I haven't seen visual studio in 20 years but Borland stuff was a lot better then. Microsoft doesn't do a lot that's unique and wonderful. And I made a living cleaning up after their stuff. Retired 10 years ago, all Linux and OpenBSD now, I barely remember how to run it.