On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:19 AM, NAGAMOHAN YENUGANTI
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I heard that C++ is somewhat slower than C because of some memory overhead.

I am not too sure about that. For example, a quick search returned
http://unthought.net/c++/c_vs_c++.html though I also found
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2296462/C-vs-C-Performance-Comparison-Virtual-Functions-Inheritance-
(which has an opposite opinion). BTW, you may also like to see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B#Criticism

> For a fixed industrial level project , writing in C is faster than C++. Is
> it true

I don't know what fixed industrial level projects are, but IMHO, since
C++ allows for C (and much more), it would be _faster to write_ the
program for a C++ compiler.


Sharad

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