> C was also king of the zero cost abstractions. Seriously? That's news to me. Only C zero cost abstractions I know of are based on external code generators. O

> C was also king of the zero cost abstractions. Seriously? That's news to me. Only C zero cost abstractions I know of are based on external code generators. Or some macro abuse, but that's rather limited way to create abstractions. But then again, when you really need to understand everything that is going on, abstractions are often not helping you. (I write kernel drivers and bare bones embedded, where memory measured in kilobytes, not megabytes.)