| From: | Steffen |
| Date: | 12 Dec 99 at 17:20:43 |
| Subject: | Re: Optimizing (Was: Re: Getting desperate!) |
From: Steffen <steffen.mars@stenloese.mail.telia.com>
On 02-Dec-99, Nuno Trancoso wrote:
> A guy once told me that C++ makes code bigger and slower. Anyone cares to
> comment on that?
>
> Cya L8r,
>
> DarkShadow
> aka Nuno Trancoso
Absolutely! The purpose of C++, i think, has never been speed, and for some purposes, probably 'most', speed is irrelevant.
It seems that C++ causes a lot of structure copying, where you usually would work the structures directly via pointers in C. Speed vs. stability....