Will there be performance and security improvements?

  • lloram239@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    you are comparing the libraries with each other.

    It’s not the libraries that make the difference, but that C++ templates allow you to write generic code that is easy to use and easy to optimized for the compiler due to having all the real data types readily available, while C has to fiddle with void* and function pointer to get similar flexibility, which are much harder to optimize, as none of the type information is there.

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      1 year ago

      while C has to fiddle with void* and function pointer to get similar flexibility, which are much harder to optimize, as none of the type information is there.

      I thought we were discussing speed, not ease of use?

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        1 year ago

        If you manually hand optimize every line of code, C and C++ are identical. That’s a worthless discussion to have. The point is that you can write in C++ high level code that would require substantial code duplication to match the speed in C, as C just doesn’t offer the tools for that level of abstraction.

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          1 year ago

          …so now we are discussing not speed again but ease of use.

          Not everything with an R in it is faster than C. Read up about it. Everyone says so.

          I’m out.