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Re:Is C++ fast? by vectorEQ on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:11AM (#18939380)
if you don't use any of the slow language features it's fast
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Re:Is C++ fast? by Retra on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:21AM (#18939440)
If you use special-purpose tools rather than robust ones, you can get better performance. But nobody wants to ship a language without robust general-purpose tools.
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Re:Is C++ fast? by krapp on Friday January 18, 2019 @12:22PM (#18940876)
Even the slow language features are fast enough for most use cases, though. I think the actual comparison here isn't between 'slow' and 'fast' but 'probably fast enough' and 'as fast as possible.'
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