On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 15:49:06 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> For example, Stroustrup has the article "Learning Standard C++ as a New Language"[1]. It compares sorting performance of C to C++ in section 3, "Efficiency". With those old C and C++ compilers he used (in May 1999), C++ was 1.74 to 4.62 times faster than C.

c++ language advocacy bullshit. C++ template bloat wouldn't be able to run on the low end machines from that era. The only thing from C stdlib you would use in performance code is memcpy and math.h, the rest is convinience and baggage...

If people have to use C stdlib as an example then they have already lost the argument...