Inefficiency of http_request::extract_vector() method
#103 aperta il 24 mar 2016
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I'm looking at using the C++ REST SDK to implement a relatively simple but performance-critical REST server in our project. I've put together a PoC and it all looks good. But I've just hit upon what I think is a major performance issue.
When using the http_request::extract_vector() method, the Task completion routine is passed the retrieved vector by value. Our server will sometimes be posted a large content body (1MB or more). The pass-by-value means that this vector will be copied. This completely removes one of the major advantage of using C/C++ for this kind of work, i.e. the fact that if you know what you're doing, you can avoid the huge amount of copying that can be a bottleneck on platforms like NodeJS.
Am I missing something obvious here or will I have to implement a custom extract_vector_ptr() method myself?