Re: OT: Open letter to the Linux World

[Austin S Hemmelgarn]

On 2014-09-04 06:16, Alexander Holler wrote:
> 
> It's a myth that C++ ends up in bigger code than C. At least in my
> experience. Especially when the latest additions to C++ are in effect
> (like the move-semantics in C++11 I like quiet a lot and which you get
> almost for free (by changing nothing) when you use the STL). Thread
> support is now also standardized (in C++11), quiet nice to use.
Assuming you are writing in a standalone environment (no standard
libraries), then yes, your code will usually be about the same size
(unless you go way overboard with the object-oriented stuff); but the
runtime is larger in almost all non-standalone environments, and there
are some cases that code does end up larger in C++.  A lot of 'Clean C'
(stuff written so that it compiles correctly as C, C++ and Objective C)
that I have seen seems to end up larger (by about 4-6%) when built as
C++ (although it usually does much worse as Objective C).

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