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From: johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ : A free lunch ?
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Date: 26 Oct 88 12:56:00 GMT
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C++ is just as fast as C (within + or - 2%).  We have written an
operating system (Choices) in C++ and are getting very good performance
figures from it.  There is essentially no performance overhead in
using C++.