C vs C++ blah blah blah

[Chris Wedgwood <chris cyphercom com>]

    For what it's worth I think the fact they did it in C is one of it's
    best features.. and like others have said, you can always add wrappers
    for C++.

Still not as clean as pure C++.

gtk is in C. Its not going to be re-written in C++, so why discuss the
issue any further?

Also, delete is a reserved word in C++ - so gtk should perhaps be changed to
reflect this. (ie. not use it).

    Something interesting to think about :)

[snip]

    This is linux 2.0.30 with all the latest  - gcc version 2.7.2.1.. I'm
    sure it's the linktime for the C++ version that kills it..

It will partially, normally C++ programs also requires libg++.so, libm.so
and libstdc++.so. Linked statically they are almost (if not) the same size
and the same speed on my machine.

gcc/g++ produce the same code for the both the C & C++ version of
hello-word.

x:~# time hello-c
hello world

real    0m0.002s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s
x:~# time hello-cc
hello world

real    0m0.002s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s
x:~#

P.S. This uses the bash-2.01 time builtin. The *bsd time thingy be default
     doesn't have enough resolution. Still, these numbers are too small to
     count for much.




-Chris