** Reply to message from Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 28 Sep
2000 16:44:55 -0400
> Right. And C++ was designed carefully along "you pay for what you use", so
> with careful programming it should be no worse. OTOH, in C you _see_ the
> costs [OK, maybe a hardened asm-fanatic will take issue with that...], in
> C++ you don't necessarily see what is going on.
I don't agree with that at all. C is not better or worse than C++ in this
regard. The only way to truly know what you get is to examine the generated
assembly code. When I do this, more often than not I'm surprised at how the
compiler interpreted my code, or what code the compiler generated. The only
time my C++ compiler generated code that I was wildly less efficient than I
expected was when I created an lookup table of member functions. I had to
rewrite the code to use a switch/case statement instead.
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