Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

[Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:00:43PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 12:53:23PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > But the problem is that templates, nor exceptions or rtti (which are all
> > > elements of MODERN C++ programming) don't work well enough on the GNU
> > > platform...
> > 
> > Is that true, I have heard this agrument often, but is it true, and is it still
> > so today ? Is there effort made to fix this ? how far are they ?
> 
> I haven't used RTTI, but in my experience templates work without problems

I also heard that templates bloat the code, not just that they don't
work, what about it, what size are your executable compared to
equivalent C stuff, what speed do you loose by using C++ templates.

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER