Re: is C necessarily faster than C++

>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.


I don't have pointers to empirical studies (would love to hear of any)
but depending on the compiler and the OS, it may be the case that
C++ programs page a lot more than C programs do.


Some people have said that not only X, but C++, was dreamed up by
DRAM manufacturers.
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