First Impressions

[Johan Granberg]

BCS wrote:
> Why isn't performance a problem?
> 
> If you are saying that this won't cause performance hits in run times or 
>  memory space, I might be able to buy it, but I'm not yet convinced.
> 
> If you are saying that causing a performance hit in run times or memory 
> space is not a problem... in that case I think you are dead wrong and 
> you will not convince me otherwise.
> 
> In my opinion, any compiled language should allow fairly direct access 
> to the most efficient practical means of doing something*. If I didn't 
> care about speed and memory I wound use some sort of scripting language.
> 
> A good set of libs should make most of this moot. Leave the char as is 
> and define a typedef struct or whatever that provides the added 
> functionality that you want.
> 
> * OTOH a language should not mandate code to be efficient at the expense 
> of ease of coding.

I don't think any performance hit will be so big that it causes problems 
(max x4 memory and negligible computation overhead). Hope that made 
clear what I meant.