| From: | Rod Schnell |
| Date: | 13 Dec 99 at 11:03:58 |
| Subject: | Re: Optimizing (Was: Re: Getting desperate!) |
From: Rod Schnell <rodsch@telusplanet.net>
Hello Jonas
On 12-Dec-99, Jonas Hulten wrote:
> From: Jonas Hulten <bjonte@hem2.passagen.se>
>
> 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.
>
Actually, C++ does make for much larger, slower programs in many (imho,
probably most) cases. C++ classes are generic "black boxes" with code to do
all kinds of things that you may not need, use, or want in your application.
Regards Rod