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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: variable declaration
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Date: 18 Sep 89 17:24:38 GMT
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> >There shouldn't be any issue of optimization no matter where one declares
> >one's variables using any modern optimizing compiler.  
> 
> Be careful when making statements like this! ;-) If you are talking about
> strictly automatics (locals), this is true, but not if you are comparing
> automatics and external (global) variables. Automatics can be much more
> easily and effectively optimized than externals; witness the code generated
> by the GNU C/C++ compiler.
> 
> kurt

Sorry, I assumed that since globals are typically bad programming practice,
and typically less efficient than automatics, that people would not *think*
I was referring to them.  Don't use globals unless forced to -- and with
static class members, why would you be forced to?