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		malisper on Feb 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In Defense of C++ > we still needed that extra 15% or so of "ambient" performance. This doesn't make sense to me. That 15% of time is spent somewhere. It certainly isn't just "ambient".

panic on Feb 7, 2017 [–]

Yes, it's spent carrying out the fundamental operations of the language (mostly method lookup and dispatch in this case).

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