| From: | Jonas Hulten |
| Date: | 13 Dec 99 at 00:12:56 |
| Subject: | Re: Optimizing (Was: Re: Getting desperate!) |
From: Jonas Hulten <bjonte@hem2.passagen.se>
Den 12-Dec-99, skrev Steffen:
> From: Steffen <steffen.mars@stenloese.mail.telia.com>
>> A guy once told me that C++ makes code bigger and slower. Anyone cares to
>> comment on that?
> 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....
I don't think C++ in itself causes more structure copying than C, it's just
that you can use it or misuse it as you can use or misuse C. Structure
copying can be avoided in C++ as it can in C in most cases.
I don't think that the object oriented nature of C++ makes it slower, it
just makes programs easier to write. You can do the same in C it just takes
more code to do it. The first C++ compilers compiled to C first, so it is
mostly some added nice syntax.
/Jonas