• Valmond@lemmy.world
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        2 years 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@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

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

        • JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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          2 years 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.