Re: [plex86] More on C++

[Robert W. Cunningham]

Mikael Jansson wrote:

> >
> >Which is why I STRONGLY recommend using only the lightest-weight parts
> of
> >C++ that offer the greatest benefits.  I haven't looked at ObjectiveC
> that
> >closely, but remember that Next did write nearly an entire OS in that
> >language, and it ran quite well.  Something to look at as an example of
> >high-performance system-level OO.
> >
> Staying off-topic, there's also BeOS, which is written entirely in C++
> (minus kernel land. Well, that doesn't make it entirely C++ based. But
> 90% of it.).

Wow.  How much of BeOS's legendary multimedia performance takes place in
the kernel, and how much in app-land and user-space?  Have they really made
C++ sit up and bark, or is it a relatively thin wrapper over a highly
optimized C kernel?


-BobC