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- From: Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Performance: C vs. C++
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:47:07 +0100
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- Raymond Fischer <raymond_fischer@qm.claris.com> writes:
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- >First: A program that doesn't run doesn't run quickly. C++ can make for fewer bugs in the
- >resulting program and can allow you to produce a working program quicker. In that sense
- >C++ is faster.
-
- OTOH, C++ bugs (when C++ is used in non-trivial ways) tend to be
- considerably subtler and more difficult to find than C bugs. In that
- sense, C++ is slower.
-
- Dan
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