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  3. December 2001

RE: Trivia: Processor MHz

Steve,

> The standard library is more C than C++. In C you say
> "strcpy( ToString, FromString)". In C++ you say "ToString =
> FromString" where the "=" operator is overloaded by the
> string class. So you are back to an inefficient function call
> to reach your optimized method.  Result being an inefficient
> ( on a CPW 50 system ) operation.  You are mixing OOP and RPG
> like coding, ending up with code that is not efficient and I
> would argue slightly not OOP.

There is nothing 'special' about the C++ standard library. If you look at
the source of any of them out there you'll see all of the OO-ness of C++ is
implemented in a procedural way - there's no way around it.

C++ (the implementation) in all its glory is messy wrappers around C code.

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