Re: gtk+ speed

[Alberto Garcia <agarcia igalia com>]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:30:32PM +0100, Christian Dywan wrote:

> > As you say, because type casts are dinamic, there's the overhead
> > of calling g_type_check_instance_* which in languages like C++ is
> > not needed because it's done at compilation time. I suspect that
> > this overhead is negligible (I haven't made real tests, though).
> To be fair, you should consider that C++ has other overheads, and is
> particularly hard to parse from the perspective of a compiler.

Yeah, I didn't mean to compare both languages, only to point out
the additional overheads that GObject might have compared to other
object-oriented implementations.

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