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C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness
(research.swtch.com)
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I could talk for a long time about things I don't like about C++. This type of stuff doesn't even scratch the surface lol.
Years and years ago I actually wrote up a pretty in-depth blog post talking about it, even going so far as to show that it's not even faster than the competitors once you've added in all this overbloated garbage that it calls a standard library. I wrote up a little toy implementation of some problem in C, Python, C++, and a couple other languages, and lo and behold then C one was faster by a mile and the C++ one using all the easier C++ abstractions was pretty comparable with the others and actually slower than the Perl implementation.