CppCon 2019: Chandler Carruth “There Are No Zero-cost Abstractions”

— Discussion & Comments: — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: — C is often described as providing zero-cost abstractions. Libraries offer up facilities documented as such. And of course, users read all of these advertisements and believe that the abstractions they are using are truly zero-cost. Sadly, there is no truth in advertising here, and there are no zero-cost abs