I recently upgraded my development system to Ubuntu 8.04. Which has the upgraded version of gcc/g++ compared to Ubuntu 7.10.Even though it's the same project, my global variables/objects are being ...

Delegates are type safe function pointers *with an optional this pointer* thus no need to pass one round yourself. Obviously their utility is much enhanced in contract to C++ by virtue of being ...

Sure, if I take my RTOS and write C++ code that does a red/black tree on some sensor data as a bunch of polymorphic objects with virtual functions it is going to be slower than a C LED blinker ...