Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code
Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code
- Subject: Re: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code
- From: Scott Ribe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:44:46 -0700
- Thread-topic: ObjC in time-critical parts of the code
> Yikes! I hope you realize that for some of us of a certain computing
> era, this statement looks quite strange. As if you said, perhaps, that
> you were prone to reducing your fuel consumption by going back to
> driving a Hummer.
Yes, I realize that. Particularly for those who are only familiar with "old
style" C++.
> TBH (and more to the point) I strongly suspect it's true of everyone
> who's expressed an opinion in this thread that it's not so much about
> the suitability of the language to optimizations, but more about the
> skill set of the individual with regard to the language.
Well, there is a degree of efficiency that can be had with C++ classes that
simply cannot be had with Objective-C classes. It is a degree of efficiency
that is not often required, but just as you can't "rewrite Cocoa in C++" as
we've seen demanded by people who don't really understand Objective-C,
there's levels of efficiency that in C++ can be combined with high-level
abstractions, but in Objective-C would require raw C.
--
Scott Ribe
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