Thread: a C++ library of mine.

> I'd rather think of it as "slow down."
So you'd want to write a website in a pre-compiled language? And what if the environment changes, such as the server OS, etc?

Sometimes it's not all about speed, but productivity. Very well you may be able to write a program that is faster, but in terms of some VM/interpreted languages I can port mine without even recompiling, and it took less time to write . Of course there are cases that would blow this argument out of the water (but I'll ignore them for now).

Originally Posted by zacs7

Very well you may be able to write a program that is faster.

Or not... The London Stock Exchange (which was in the news just recently for the wrong reasons) runs on a C# platform and still allows for a performance level that is among the most critical requirements one can think of. That didn't stop the minds -- which I'm sure are more than qualified -- behind the LSE to adopt a solution based on managed code, dynamic compilation and all the other demons from hell we like to think of when tagging programming languages as "bad".

Performance is perhaps one of the least understood requirements by many programmers. I wished Elysia reviewed her concept of it. Meanwhile liking or disliking the programming language has nothing to do with it, as Elysia will soon learn when the time comes for her to join the masses of other programmers waiting for a job in the industry.

Finally, the notion of a safe C++ ticks me. C++ is not meat to be safe. If that is a requirement (and I see plenty of reasons why it can be) one either implements safety or uses libraries that do. That's what's libraries are for. The language itself must remain as much general-purpose as it can be.

Mario,

your point about performance is good. 90% (or more in large systems) of code is not factoring in the performance of most applications. The relatively small portion of code that is performance critical can often be optimized on a algorithmic level to a larger degree than the optimizations that you get from the difference between one language to another (or variant of language to another). And if all else fails, most languages support calling C or assembler.

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Mats