On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 22:08 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Allen,
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 13:00, Allen wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:19:09PM +0200, Andre Truter wrote:
On 11/8/05, Steven T. Hatton
wrote: ...
Since I have absolutely no delays with the mouse using the KDE, I can't compare that to anyting. As for the underlying language used, yes, the GNOME is written in C, not C++. If anything, that means it will be slower if both languages are utilized to their fullest reasonable extent.
Umm.. How do you get that? It is rather the other way around. C++ apps are generally slower. Why is the Linux kernel written in C? If C++ was faster, then would that not have made sense?
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A myth usually shown false with a little assembler.
That's irrelevant, because code written in assembly has little or no portability to other platforms and often marginal portability to other processors in the same family. And programmer productivity writing in assembler is abysmal.
. . . Portability and programmer productivity has nothing to do with program execution speed. The difference in C and C++ runtimes will be dependent on the compiler used. Rudolf