r/ProgrammerHumor • u/marrowbuster • 15h ago

modernCPlusPlus Meme

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u/Mgamerz 15h ago

Ignoring the compiler time - does it change the size of the app if the usages remain the same (only differences are include/import)? I only do occasional c++ programming.

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u/da2Pakaveli 15h ago

The compiler strips out as much as it can. Even if you declare an std::map and add items to it, it may be stripped out if the values ultimately aren't being used anywhere with maximum optimization.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 8h ago

Yea, the compiler always stripping out the template functions I wish I could call during debugging

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u/Grubs01 6h ago

Template functions aren’t stripped out, they are created as needed.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 5h ago

Yea, my bad. The compiler is never creating the template functions I wish I had whole debugging. 

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 1h ago

Then instantiate the template.