On 3/3/2012 2:13 AM, bearophile wrote:
Walter:Adding in software checks for null pointers will dramatically slow things down.Define this use of "dramatically" in a more quantitative and objective way, please. Is Java "dramatically" slower than C++/D here?
You can try it for yourself. Take some OOP code of yours, and insert a null check in front of every dereference of the class handle.
