In article <3fdf9da3$1@news.povray.org> , Nicolas Calimet 
<pov### [at] freefr>  wrote:

>  This example is very trivial, and you can easily implement the same
> in your own string library in C.  What I'd like to see is the performance of
> creating a dynamical formatted string, similarly to vsprintf() -- but of
course
> without the static buffer passed as argument, which makes vsnprintf
unecessary.

If you really want to use printf-style formatting in C++ (I sure do so
often), take a look at <http://www.boost.org/libs/format/index.htm>.  While
I never used it (I have my own mini-utility function for that), it does
sound like a simple solution.

    Thorsten

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