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> If you wanted readability, or maintainability you have to sacrifice performance. If you want performance, you have to sacrifice everything else. This is true
by turminal 5y ago
> If you wanted readability, or maintainability you have to sacrifice performance. If you want performance, you have to sacrifice everything else.
This is true in every programming language to some extent. What makes it worse in C++ is that the language markets itself as being performant without any trade offs (zero cost abstractions!) and the reality is very different from that.
- TheMonarchist 5y ago> (zero cost abstractions!) You probably mean zero overhead abstractions. The idea is that you can't outperform it by handwritten equivalent code.
- turminal 5y agoThe name is irrelevant, the point is that it's a blatant lie.