Author: Bo Persson
Date: 04:32:21 08/14/04
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On August 12, 2004 at 16:11:04, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >A good C++ program cannot run faster than a good C program doing same thing. >Just like a good C program cannot run faster than a good Assembly program doing >same thing. > Did you check out my reference in the other part of this thread: "Here is another guy (B. Stroustrup) who has the same view. It his probably his view originally. :-) Please read his paper "Learning Standard C++ as a New Language", where he shows how to write C++ that is both smaller and much faster than the corresponing C code: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/new_learning.pdf " There you have an example of exactly that - C++ can be inherently faster than C for some operations, because it has additional capabilities. Bo Persson
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