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- From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will JAVA kill C++?
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 15:36:03 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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- Adam Megacz (kalessin@netcom.com) wrote:
- : Olivier Meirhaeghe wrote:
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- : > whoever wants speed should stick to C or Fortran, not C++. Heavy graphics
- : I'm not a Fortran buff, but I don't understand why C is faster than C++.
- : C++ supports all C features (except the void* crap). If anything, C++'s
- : type-checking allows more compiler optimizations, making it a slightly
- : faster language.
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- C is not faster than C++ if you use C++ as plain C compiler.
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- If you want to use features of C++ that theoretically ought to seem
- good for numerical programming, such as complex number classes and
- especially matrix classes, various language consequences of C++ combine
- to make things slower than they should be with nearly all compilers if you
- want to use idiomatic matrix classes.
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- matt
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