On Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 19:37:41 +1100, Sam Couter wrote: >Benno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyway, you can write good stuff in C, but really, unless computation >> speed is the issue [ ... ] > >... and even when it is, avoid C. The compiler/VM/runtime for higher level >languages is usually smarter than you are. You'll have to write the high >level code first to find out which bits need optimisation anyway.
Yeah, I should have qualified my statement a bit more :) I know there are VMs out there that can garbage collect a hell of a lot beterr than the C heap. But if you are at the point of trying to get things in a few cache lines, or with a small memory footprintf there is still a use for C. (But hell, it still doesn't even let you do that very well, there is no standard way to specify alignment of data or code.) Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
