Re: [ANN] llua Higher-level C API for Lua

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 7:57 PM, David Crayford <dcrayford@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/03/2014 4:26 AM, Jeremy Ong wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been working on a Lua library recently that uses classes, but other
>>> than that I've avoided C++ features (such as templates and the STL) for
>>> fear
>>> that I don't want my library to depend on a huge C++ runtime. I hope I
>>> haven't got it all wrong... Classes are damn nice to have (and templates
>>> would be nice too), but I don't want to drag in all of the STL and have
>>> my
>>> library be potentially unusable on small devices.
>>
>> You realize templates are a compile-time thing right?
>>
> And use of templates usually produces much larger object code when compared
> to C. Every time you use std::string the compiler will generate lots of
> code.
> Hence C++11 and extern templates (a very useful new feature).

Object code, yes, but not final linked code; the linker collapses the
duplicate definitions so your final output really isn't substantially
larger. Extern templates make the linker's job easier and help
insulate it from differences in preprocessor state, and should also
improve compile times.

/s/ Adam