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From: johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Efficiency of C++ relative to C??
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Date: 20 Sep 89 15:48:00 GMT
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The 1988 C++ conference has a paper by Russo and Kaplan in which
they took a C program (a Scheme interpreter), rewrote it in C++,
and it was faster.  It turns out that virtual functions are faster
than switch statements, at least for the machine they were using.