Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:24:50 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Dan MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beginning C++ in FreeBSD Message-ID: <200404202124.50967.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABIEMPCJAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net> References: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABIEMPCJAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Saturday 17 April 2004 15:30, Dan MacMillan wrote: > From: Daniela > Sent: April 17, 2004 04:50 > > > OO languages can be optimized differently than non-OO languages, and > > when you translate one language into another, this advantage gets lost. > > I challenge you to defend this claim with a specific example. I don't really have a specific example, but it's quite the same with human languages. The more often a text is translated, the more useless information gets added to it. And if the original text is beautifully written, it is often total crap when you translate it back. > > I would rather say, assembly is fast and can be portable, if it's done > > properly. > > How does one properly do an assembly language program for the x86 > instruction set (for example) so that it will run on a StrongARM? I only mean that if you do it right, you can write code that can easily be made to run on similar architectures, or different operating systems.
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