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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ : A free lunch ?
Keywords: costs of C++. Apollo C++.
Message-ID: <4675@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Oct 88 06:15:21 GMT
References: <133@icarus.kulcs.uucp>
Reply-To: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
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In article <133@icarus.kulcs.uucp> paulb@kulcs.UUCP () writes:
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>We are fairly new users of C++ and are wondering what the run time
>costs are of using C++ instead of C.
>

C++ generates C.  A properly written program will run in equivalent
time.  Often better, because the abstraction mechanisms of C++ lend
themselves to better structured design.