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P.R.B. Devloo

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Campinas, Departmento de Construcao Civil, Campinas, Brazil

doi:10.4203/ccp.27.3.6

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P.R.B. Devloo, "Efficiency Issues in an Object Oriented Programming Environment", in B.H.V. Topping, M. Papadrakakis, (Editors), "Artificial Intelligence and Object Oriented Approaches to Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 147-151, 1994. doi:10.4203/ccp.27.3.6

Abstract

It has been observed in several meetings on object oriented programming (OOP) that one of the main criticisms against OOP is that it inherently lacks efficiency. It is generally believed that any program, written in an OOP language, will inherently be less efficient than its counter-part, written in FORTRAN.

In this work it is shown that the indiscriminated use o certain constructs in OOP really leads to a (significant) reduction in efficiency. It is also shown that, on the other hand, if an object oriented program is written for maximum efficiency, its performance is equal or comparable to its equivalent FORTRAN implementation.

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 27 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OBJECT ORIENTED APPROACHES TO STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING Edited by: B.H.V. Topping and M. Papadrakakis Paper III.6 Efficiency Issues in an Object Oriented Programming Environment P.R.B. Devloo Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Campinas, Departmento de Construcao Civil, Campinas, Brazil doi:10.4203/ccp.27.3.6 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper P.R.B. Devloo, "Efficiency Issues in an Object Oriented Programming Environment", in B.H.V. Topping, M. Papadrakakis, (Editors), "Artificial Intelligence and Object Oriented Approaches to Structural Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 147-151, 1994. doi:10.4203/ccp.27.3.6 Abstract It has been observed in several meetings on object oriented programming (OOP) that one of the main criticisms against OOP is that it inherently lacks efficiency. It is generally believed that any program, written in an OOP language, will inherently be less efficient than its counter-part, written in FORTRAN. In this work it is shown that the indiscriminated use o certain constructs in OOP really leads to a (significant) reduction in efficiency. It is also shown that, on the other hand, if an object oriented program is written for maximum efficiency, its performance is equal or comparable to its equivalent FORTRAN implementation. purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £45 +P&P)
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