I read that templates are complied into different entities so does that mean the binary size will be same as we have complied it using different functions?
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I read that templates are complied into different entities so does that mean the binary size will be same as we have complied it using different functions?
They should shorten the source size (if they are reused) but not the binary size (the template is compiled for each different instantiation).
This differs from Java generics, where there is a full type erasure (generics only serve as a compile time verification of types) or C#, where generics are compiled into specific binaries that can be directly reused without having to recompile and generate more code.