On Tue, 11 Oct 2016, Daniel Serpell wrote:

> Hi!
>
> For a good example of what current C++ compilers can do at
> compile time, you can see the following video:
>
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DzBkNBP00wJE
>
> It's a talk about C64 pong game written in C++.
>
>    Daniel.

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for sharing, it was interesting.

I can see that a lot of people will instantly home in on the "zero=20
overhead" aspect and get their wallets out :-)

I have been writing C++ code for over 20 years so take it from me I'm not=20
a C++ hater. However I do feel that it is very heavy for simple stuff. I=20
particularly ***HATE*** the way templates have taken over.

Anyway one point that Jason was explit about is that this zero overhead=20
optimisation works "best" when not using heap allocation. I wonder how=20
well it copes with pointer manipulation in general. His example was very=20
interesting in that it used a recursive function to do some heavy lifting.

Perhaps someone should produce a i386 to PIC converter (as Jason did for=20
the 6502) so that people that really want to can use C++17 on the PIC.

Regards
Sergio Masci
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