Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:26:43 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: linux headers and C++ |
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On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 01:45:00PM +0000, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> >And templates remain dangerous bloat-generating territory. > > Pardon me, but that's simply FUD. Dangerous, maybe, at least for > someone that doesn't really understand templates.
Oddly, I'd argue that templates are pretty safe, certainly w.r.t. types.
> Bloat-generating, > definitely not.
Definitely bloat generating. Each time you use a template with a different type, the compiler has to effectively make a new class, complete with all code, for that type. That's a pretty good definition of bloat IMHO.
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