Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:15:06 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@alpha.yumyumyum.org> To: Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker@fast.no> Cc: Martin Ankerl <martinankerl@web.de>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: C vs C++ Message-ID: <20020305131439.J4700-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <15492.62736.239246.919734@raw.grenland.fast.no>
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Well, that too, I guess I was just using KDE as an example of something being extremely slow due to a lot of libs being loaded. Ken On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Raymond Wiker wrote: > Kenneth Culver writes: > > The code itself may be fast, but programs written in c++ tend to link to a > > lot of shared libs, which in itself can be pretty slow. > > That's *not* unique to C++. On my machine, /usr/lib contains > 73 shared libs, and these are mainly C libraries. > > If you want arguments against C++, try any of these: > > C++ programs use a *lot* of header files, and these do in > general cause more work for the compiler than do the C header > files. This boils down to noticeably longer compile times. > > C++ is a *much* larger language, with *much* more complicated > semantics and behaviour. A large proportion of C++ programmers do not > know the language well enough that they should be allowed to program > in it. > > -- > Raymond Wiker Mail: Raymond.Wiker@fast.no > Senior Software Engineer Web: http://www.fast.no/ > Fast Search & Transfer ASA Phone: +47 23 01 11 60 > P.O. Box 1677 Vika Fax: +47 35 54 87 99 > NO-0120 Oslo, NORWAY Mob: +47 48 01 11 60 > > Try FAST Search: http://alltheweb.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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