Fwd: RE: [Dev-C++] c or c++. that is the question

[Krzysztof K. <sa...@op...>]

> Khalid
> >Ioannis wearing his bullet-proof vest:
> >
> >
> >Keep in mind that the prevalent X-Window library now is a 
> C++ one. Also
> >most
> >new GNU/Linux programs are being written in C++ these days...
> >
> >
> >File sizes for the hello world program should not be different.
> >

This is not exactly right. One of the reasons why the C++ code could
be larger/slower than C one (not much, just a bit) is that for every
object the '*this' pointer is added to function params. Just putting
it one the stack takes a bit of time and a bit of space...

Why people need to use C sometimes instead of C++? Because there are
many platforms (especially microcontrollers) for which there is a
C compiler but no C++ is available. Also the object-oriented (C++)
programming (with analysis, optimization) is more complicated than
programming without objects.

-- 
Have a nice life,
 Krzysztof

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