From: "Victor Bazarov" <vAbazarov AT dAnai DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GENERAL DATA TYPE (Do you need one ?)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:46:16 -0800
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"Traveler" <traveler AT netti DOT fi> wrote...
> > BTW, how would your Object type do all the conversions?  By foot?
> >
> virtual conversion function.....

Isn't that why Java is so damn slow?  Everything is an object,
virtual everything, garbage all over the place (so it has to
be collected all the time)...