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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ (Expression Templates)
Date: 1997/09/08
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In article <3413FFA6.D4D@osc.edu>, "James B. White, III (Trey)"
<trey@osc.edu> wrote:


>In other fields, the relative priority of performance versus ease of
>development isn't so skewed towards performance. I, however, am in the
>unfortunate situation where the performance benefits of expression
>templates probably outweigh the other benefits of Ada over C++.

I have only a reading knowledge of C++.  Can you explain what an
"expression template" is?

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