In practice, C means you end up with generic data structures with pointers to what they contain, rather than being inline.
You do see a lot of macro use to deal with this, but that is just primitive, non-typesafe metaprogramming, and it gets unwieldy enough that in practice, you see people add an extra pointer. This is why it gets slower.
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In practice, C means you end up with generic data structures with pointers to what they contain, rather than being inline.
You do see a lot of macro use to deal with this, but that is just primitive, non-typesafe metaprogramming, and it gets unwieldy enough that in practice, you see people add an extra pointer. This is why it gets slower.