23 Sep
2006
23 Sep
'06
8:08 p.m.
Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> writes:
I, for one, am happy they have made the effort to provide a common way to do this in C++. It's even more amazing to me that their's virtually no loss of efficiency.
Not virtually. According to the best measurements we have, there's just plain no loss of efficiency. If you believe the numbers, there might even be an efficiency gain.
It's only thru this sort of experimentation and effort that programming practices can be improved. I'd eventually like to see a language feature, but that's a different discussion....
Quite so. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com