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C vs. C++ vs. ...

Posted Jul 9, 2012 5:44 UTC (Mon) by daniel (subscriber, #3181)
In reply to: C vs. C++ vs. ... by ReadWrite
Parent article: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

"If performance to the microsecond is not an issue, I Would be tempted to develop in C++"

Having spent a couple of years in the high frequency trading business profiling and optimizing everything to the nanosecond I can state with confidence that the C and C++ code I wrote executed at precisely the same speed, but the C++ was shorter, easier to read, more maintainable and far easier to extend to new functionality.


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