[Fwd: Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics false dichotomy]

[ponce]

On Monday, 17 February 2014 at 22:19:24 UTC, ponce wrote:
>
> Granted code bloat is a real thing and you _might_ have 
> instruction cache problems, but the problem only ever show 
> itself when the working set of code exceed the instruction 
> cache capacity. Ie. a huge executable might not be a good 
> predictor for reduced instruction cache efficiency.

I heard a story of a C++ gamedev team that would use type-punning 
to reduce code size. std::vector<void*> would be the only 
instantiation of std::vector + casts everywhere. That was for 
console binaries.