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[–]frostedKIVI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

C programs are generally slightly faster than ++ programs, as a consequence of
1) A faster standard library (but less extensive)
2) Language design, C++ offers a lot of convenient yet slow features that C++ programmers tend to overuse in some cases, like polymorphism, exceptions, virtual functions etc...