• @Valmond
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    51 year ago

    How so, templates make for less code usually? Or like template meta prog?

    I’m a C++ dev and I’m lost on this one :-p plz send help

    • Phrodo_00
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      41 year ago

      I think it’s because each template specialization works kind of like a new copy of a class.

      • @Valmond
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        11 year ago

        Still not getting it, I mean you don’t even get to see the code? IDK

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      /shrug

      That’s my best guess, in the sense that that’s what the compiler ends up producing, for templated code: the same code copy-pasted for however many different use cases you have.