Lipstick on a Pig: An Object-oriented Layer on an OS That's Not

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In short, those six lines of code will allocate 8,000 strings that take up a total of 500Kb of memory. That might or might not represent a performance hit, but I've found that it certainly surprises most developers.

Thats just gross!!! I'll stick to plain old C++/QT or C++/GTK, thank you very much.