For processing strings, streams in C++ can be slow

Re:For processing strings, streams in C++ can be slow by nicbn on Thursday December 07, 2023 @08:20AM (#38555982)

Fair enough. But it is needed to point out that there's a catch in that in order to use dynamic dispatch (subclasses, interfaces, ...) you'd still need to use pointers in C++.

Deep down the problem could be rephrased as "there are no structs in Java". In C# for example you could have a vector of structs and enjoy linear memory access.

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Re:For processing strings, streams in C++ can be slow by simiones on Thursday December 07, 2023 @08:39AM (#38556126)

That's true. It's also important to note that this feature of C++ actually breaks encapsulation - the size of an object, including all of its private fields, private parent classes etc, is part of the public interface of the object in C++. So whenever you add a new private field to an object, you need to recompile all uses of your class, even if your class is used through a DLL.

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