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I just completed, for the most part, my first C++ project for a project course I’m currently taking. After being forced to work with C++ all day I can safely say I have a renewed respect for everything Java does for me. I will say that the speed bump from compiled code is definitely noticable. Without the overhead of the JVM things really do run insanely fast on modern computers. Hopefully I’ll come out of this project OK, and just take it in as a learning experience for the remaining 2 projects in that class. I’m a little worried because there only being 3 projects total for the entire quarter, but if everyone does poorly then we all get curved together. We’ll see what happens.

One thing I did get out the project was that make files are not as magical or complex as they once seemed. At their simplist form they’re really just sh scripts running gcc, g++, or whatever compiler you tell them to use. Their ability to scale to performing incrediably complex or rather boring compilations is quite a feat. Well, I’m going to grab some sleep. Still plenty more work to do tomorrow. No freedom until Thursday evening.