Re: C++ religious war (was: llua Higher-level C API for Lua)

[Isaac Dupree <ml@...>]

On 03/22/2014 08:26 PM, William Ahern wrote:
> in practice its often simpler to compiler to C and leverage the incredible
> number of man-years put into C compiler optimizations.

Alas, C can't guarantee proper tail calls, among other issues that make 
it a fraught compilation target.

> I think the issue with C's heritage is overblown, especially considering
> that modern compilers support pre-compiled headers.

GCC's pre-compiled headers are not pre-template-instantiated headers. 
If most of your -O0 compile time is template instantiation (as mine 
was), precompiled headers do not help.

-Isaac