Slow performance compared to C++, ideas?

[Manu]

On 8 June 2013 13:25, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 6/7/2013 5:15 PM, Manu wrote:
>
>> I can tell you that in my case, we export a lot(/most) things. Renderer
>> api,
>> sound api, etc are often all in their own libraries. So none of them are
>> ever
>> eligible for optimisation.
>>
>
> I'm curious why these exports all must be classes, and cannot be structs?
>

Because they embody functionality, not just data. That's just how many many
programmers write code.
Go to university for a couple of years, see what they tell you... ;)
Some of these systems can effectively be considered plugins. Consider
OpenGL/DirectX? DirectSound/XAudio? Linux has a million back-end API's to
choose from.
I can see why many people feel it's natural to design their API's/systems
that way, right or wrong.

I don't agree with it personally, I would write it differently, but I'll
never win that argument. Tech/systems programmers are vastly outnumbered in
most studios. And of course, most programmers are junior-mid experience,
that's just commercial reality.
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