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		comex on May 11, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Abstraction without overhead: traits in Rust That first one ain't pedantic; C++ code on the whole tends to generate a lot of assembly bloat with inlined methods and template instantiations, and while executable size probably isn't that important for most use cases, it is for quite a few.

Dewie3 on May 11, 2015 [–]

It is pedantic in the sense that "overhead" in a programming context will most of the time mean some kind of runtime overhead, unless noted otherwise.

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