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Subject: Slightly off topic.

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 15:17:23 07/02/99

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The speed issue is a factor only if your program is strictly OO. The usual
method of member function calls (Methods) in C++ tend to be VTables and those
incur a bad performance hit especially on the x86 architecture. If your program
only uses objects to encapsulate data and some functionality but otherwise is
imperative (non Object oriented, ie C with streams et al) the performance hit is
neglible. IMO, if the idea is to make an object-oriented programming effort,
either ignore the performance hit or consider switching to SmallEiffel (an ADT
object-oriented language) or something similar that actually encourages
object-oriented design.

Regards Dan

• Re: Slightly off topic. Bruce Moreland 16:21:20 07/02/99
  • Re: Slightly off topic. Sven Reichard 13:48:30 07/03/99
  • Re: Slightly off topic. Dan Andersson 03:20:02 07/03/99

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