Re: [ANN] llua Higher-level C API for Lua

[David Crayford <dcrayford@...>]

On 16/03/2014 4:26 AM, Jeremy Ong wrote:
> > I've been working on a Lua library recently that uses classes, but other
> > than that I've avoided C++ features (such as templates and the STL) for fear
> > that I don't want my library to depend on a huge C++ runtime. I hope I
> > haven't got it all wrong... Classes are damn nice to have (and templates
> > would be nice too), but I don't want to drag in all of the STL and have my
> > library be potentially unusable on small devices.
> You realize templates are a compile-time thing right?
And use of templates usually produces much larger object code when 
compared to C. Every time you use std::string the compiler will generate 
lots of code.
Hence C++11 and extern templates (a very useful new feature).