Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Dave Plummer of @DavesGarage recently posted a video about how he sped up a key Windows COM utility function back in the 90s, but didn't include direct benchmarking of the 'before' and 'after' code.
So here is that benchmarking - the fast version is 35 times faster than the original! That's on relatively modern hardware, the difference may have been greater back in the day.
Code at github.com/ChrisBLong/IIDToString
Dave Plummer of @DavesGarage recently posted a video about how he sped up a key Windows COM utility function back in the 90s, but didn't include direct benchmarking of the 'before' and 'after' code.
So here is that benchmarking - the fast version is 35 times faster than the original! That's on relatively modern hardware, the difference may have been greater back in the day.
Code at github.com/ChrisBLong/IIDToString
