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Sometimes C++ is faster

Posted Jun 18, 2008 21:58 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Sometimes C++ is faster by ncm
Parent article: Converting GCC to C++

You would DECLARE the types of the arguments in the calling function.  Then (in some
implementations, anyway) the compiler would see that the arguments to the generic function are
of a particular type, and do the dispatch at compile-time.  No changes to the called GF
required.

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