On 8/30/07, Dave McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > they've given great benefits, without the bloat and glacial slowness > that is typical of so many packages written in C++.
As much as I dislike C++, I have to defend it here: it is actually not glacially slow. It may be slower to compile, especially when using templates, but runtime performance is pretty zippy. Literally, the slowest operation in C++ is a virtual method call, which is just an indirect subroutine invokation through a table of function pointers. The equivalent C code is: anObj -> vtable -> aFunction(anObj, ...); > Specifically, I make heavy use of structs which contain > "methods" (pointers to functions), and structs which have (developer- > enforced) "hidden" members. I find that using test-driven development with C produces code which is naturally highly modular and re-usable, and is strongly object oriented in design. -- Samuel A. Falvo II _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
