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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: C to C++ efficiency
Message-ID: <2210@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 19:01:41 GMT
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <14033@grebyn.com> ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes:
<there appears to be no more than a 5% performance
<degradation, if that, going from C to C++, at least judging from Turbo C
<2.0 and the Zortech C++ compiler.

Compiling a C program with Zortech C++ will actually produce an *increase*
in speed and a corresponding reduction in size of about 3%. This is because
a more efficient function calling sequence can be used on C++ functions
because they are required to be fully prototyped.