• @[email protected]
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      61 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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        31 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        11 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.