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Re:When to use generics by shp0ngle on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:59PM (#31010432)
Yeah, exactly that. Faster compile times.
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Re:When to use generics by kgeist on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:37PM (#31010955)
And also smaller binaries. For comparison, our templates-heavy C++ project's binary is 1 GB in debug mode and 200 MB in release mode. It takes 10-20 seconds just to link.
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Re:When to use generics by staticassertion on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @02:03AM (#31011648)
All of that gets removed though
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