C++ has become a very obscure language, that is generally not used very often anymore.
Objective C is much bigger then C++ now. ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: "Steve Nickolas" <usots...@buric.co> Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Verzonden: Dinsdag 26 mei 2015 17:25:54 Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility On Tue, 26 May 2015, Edouard Forler wrote: > Most of the tools (format, etc.) were written in C, but command.com, > io.sys and msdos.sys were written in assembly. For me, ms-dos is just > these three files and especially msdos.sys. I tend to favor this approach too. The resident components are better written in ASM for speed and reduced memory footprint while the userland is better written in C for ease of development and code-sharing between components. > C is OK. C++ can be awful. It takes a lot of cpu to make the dynamic > dispatch and memory allocation, since it's object-based. That's usually > where the bottleneck lies. C++ is a terrible, imo, OS language. C is just at the right point between high level and low to be most useful for these things. -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
