nanogui: State of the nanogui union?
Subject:
Re: State of the nanogui union?
From:
Alan Cox ####@####.####
Date:
29 Sep 1999 12:50:26 -0000
Message-Id: <E11WJ2y-00027F-00@the-village.bc.nu>
> > almost all of the available memory, whereas with C you could get away
> > with only a very stripped C library, C++ is a nuisance.
>
> So... strip the C++ library. I'm not saying STL, I'm saying classes.
From experience C++ libraries get very large very fast. In paticular their
initial overhead is high. Also we have no open source 8086 16bit C++ compiler
> > Actually, I work quite a bit with C++, but just not for size critical
> stuff.
>
> Isn't that just a myth?
Unfortunately - no. At least not with small projects. With a big one it
can get lost in the noise.
Alan
