On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 18:31 -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > David Brown wrote: > > C is a much easier language to implement. C++ on the other hand, probably > > not much different. But C++ is a lot more popular, so more possible > > revenue to motivate people to work on compilers. > > And C++ doesn't do much of the "dynamic" stuff that makes compilers work > so hard.
While "dynamic stuff" does add to the list of things one "could do" to improve the performance of a system, C++'s "static stuff" tends to add nearly as many things, while also adding a number of difficult things to the "must do" list. --Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
