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Foil 6 Language Design/Features

From Lessons from C++ for the Java Grande Process SC98 Orlando Java Grande Panel -- November 13 98. by John Reynders (Los Alamos)


The performance will get there:
The long pole in the tent will be the language features which limit how simulations developers can represent their physics.
overloaded operators
generic programming with parameterized classes
  • generic libraries ( STL )
  • expression templates
  • compile-time polymorphism
  • meta-programming



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