Re: C++ in kernel (was Re: exception in a device driver)

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Thu, 07 Jan 1999 19:21:23 -0800

alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> Been there, done that, didnt like it threw it out. There were several
> problems that came up. Firstly the resulting code was less efficient -
> that is partly the compiler but does seem to be at least fractionally
> the language - its very hard to figure out in C++ when you can avoid
> passing 'self' around for example.

<http://www.picturel.com/ucr-coots97/ucr.html>

I make the argument that (in theory) C++ can be *better* optimized then
C, or at least no worse. Poorly written C++ is considerably worse then
poorly writen C, but well written C++ can (and should) be better.

I have found, though, that EGCS is losing ground wrt C++ vs. C. A compiler
issue, not a language one.

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