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Chad Bremmon wrote:
> The overhead that I'm referring to doesn't come into play until you call 
> a function on a class
> 
> The way object oriented programming works, is there is an implicit 
> parameter always passed to any function of a C++ class.
> 
> It is done explicitly in Ada 95, usually with a this paramter.

Are you trying to say that the implicit parameter in C++ is somehow
less efficient than the explicit parameter of Ada? Why would you think
such a thing?