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