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Sample Code Size Comparison (part 2): C++ vs. C#

Sample Code Size Comparison (part 2): C++ vs. C#

Follows is the data I previously posted here, with the addition of the new Single View Editor Reference samples:

	Code Lines	Comment Lines	Characters	Semi-colons	Functions
Feature equivalent
C++ Tool Window	828	508	53,858	228	34
C# Tool Window	844	724	63,686	433	49
C++ Menus & Commands	178	222	18,996	38	11
C# Menus & Commands	227	201	20,498	90	10
C++ Services	315	320	28,230	78	15
C# Services	270	289	26,773	101	13
C++ Single View Editor	2,653	1,203	130,689	879	142
C# Single View Editor	3,253	1,620	251,990	1,147	276
Not feature equivalent
C++ Package	81	201	13,648	7	3
C# Package	204	261	22,284	72	17

Again the flexibility that VSL offers by being distributed as C++ header files, allows it to be added to and changed as needed, where as the MPF binaries are frozen along with the Visual Studio Platform binaries. Another factor is the ability to use multiple inheritance to inherit the implementation for many of the necessary editor interfaces (22 interfaces excluding IUknown, IDispatch, and IConnectionPointContainer).

Published Friday, March 31, 2006 3:07 PM by Josh Heitzman

Filed under: VS SDK

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# re: Sample Code Size Comparison (part 2): C++ vs. C# @ Friday, March 31, 2006 6:56 PM

But which is faster to read and understand properly when you haven't wrote it? The size argument used alone supports using PERL...

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# re: Sample Code Size Comparison (part 2): C++ vs. C# @ Friday, March 31, 2006 7:26 PM

That's a pretty subjective question. I believe ease of reading really depends on what coding style(s) the reader is used to and how closely the code in question matches what they are used too. Both C++ and C# offer a lot of flexibility in terms of coding style. Perl actually offers even more implementation sytle flexibility then either C++ or C# due one of PERL's core principles being that there is no one way to do any given thing (and there is frequently more then 2 ways to do it as well). So if the goal is to maximize readability and minimize code, Python might actually a better bet the Perl, as whitespace has meaning, thus reducing the varation in coding style.

That being said, nearly all Visual Studio Integration Packages are written in either C++ or C#, so those two languages are what are interesting to compare here. C++ and C# are both also considered system programming languages, where as Perl and Python are not considered system programming languages.

Josh Heitzman

# re: Sample Code Size Comparison (part 2): C++ vs. C# @ Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:06 AM

Please send me the source code,How we calculated the size of one excel sheet to multiple excel sheet.

please....................

amit

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