[Tell It Right]

I think he was referring to the "Visual" of MS Visual C++ adding a lot of run time overhead (.Net Framework stuff) compared to a C++ program that a lot of us first learned.

Today, you can still make a bare-bones C++ app (like we remember) in Linux with the g++ command-line compiler. I don't know if that's the case if you make a C++ app in the Eclipse IDE on Linux.

[TexasGator]

“I think he was referring to the “Visual” of MS Visual C++ adding a lot of run time overhead (.Net Framework stuff) compared to a C++ program that a lot of us first learned.”

Yes, but Visual C++ does not bind in everything you don’t need as he said.