Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:36:22 09/27/98
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On September 27, 1998 at 09:49:18, Amir Ban wrote: >On September 26, 1998 at 18:15:51, John Coffey wrote: > >>On September 26, 1998 at 18:00:26, James Robertson wrote: >>>>>Yes, that was when my program had nothing but alpha-beta. Also, most of the >>>>>program is written in Assembly which increased my NPS over the C++ version by >>>>>>300%. >>>>> >>>>>James >>>> >> >> >> >>C++ is a different matter then C. When I think of C++, the first word that >>comes to my mind is the word "overhead." But I guess that depends upon if >>you were using much C++ functionality. >> >>John Coffey > > >I'm getting deja-vu here. Didn't we have this thread already several months ago >? Anyway, this is where I come in and defend C++: > >There is no overhead at all involved in using C++. > >Amir that's only true if you use the C++ syntactical tricks without using the major C++ functionality, namely object constructors/destructor stuff, which is where the overhead grows quickly.
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