On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:00:43PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 12:53:23PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > But the problem is that templates, nor exceptions or rtti (which are all > > > elements of MODERN C++ programming) don't work well enough on the GNU > > > platform... > > > > Is that true, I have heard this agrument often, but is it true, and is it > > still > > so today ? Is there effort made to fix this ? how far are they ? > > I haven't used RTTI, but in my experience templates work without problems
I also heard that templates bloat the code, not just that they don't work, what about it, what size are your executable compared to equivalent C stuff, what speed do you loose by using C++ templates. Friendly, Sven LUTHER