Learning C

Ok, sorry guys if I was mistaken (I told you I am not a prof. programmer).

Also, I wanted to say I was wrong saying that STL makes the programs slower; what I wanted to say was that writting your own templates makes the program slower: most of the compilers (i used Visual C++ 6.0) need to have the decleration + implementation code in the header file (isn't that a reason to make the program slower?). I don't know maybe I did sth wrong then.

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Originally Posted by yiannakop

Also, I wanted to say I was wrong saying that STL makes the programs slower; what I wanted to say was that writting your own templates makes the program slower: most of the compilers (i used Visual C++ 6.0) need to have the decleration + implementation code in the header file (isn't that a reason to make the program slower?). I don't know maybe I did sth wrong then.

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Yes....that is still a typical problem with templates...there exists the 'export' keyword however this is basically supported by only a few compilers at the moment.

Nevertheless, the only time that these will slow down is the compilation time...but not the processing time....