Re: is C necessarily faster than C++

tbrannon <tbrannon@mars.mars.eecs.lehigh.edu> writes:


> This guy in my lab keeps refusing to use C++ in our program intended
> to simulate somatosensory neural circuits because he says it is slower
> than C. My (uninformed) response was that most of what you see as
> overhead (ie, message routing, value accessing, type checking) is
> optimized away at compile-time.


> Any pointers to more empirical studies?


The SEL-HPC article archive has the following paper: Brad Calder,
Dirk Grunwald, and Ben Zorn "Quantifying Behavioral Differences
Between C and C++ Programs" , submitted to Journal on Programming
Language and Design.


You can find it al the following URL:
http://www.lpac.qmw.ac.uk/SEL-HPC/Articles/HpcArchive.html
where a search on the subjext matter will bring up a link to this and
any other papers related to your search.


Alistair
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[It's an interesting paper. C and C++ programs are more different than I would
have expected. -John]
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