[afdbcreid]

So? How is that an argument that C++ is more performant than C? It's only an argument that it's not less performant.

[pjmlp]

Because you can write C like code, while taking advantage of templates, compile time code execution, and eventually static reflection, that prepare work ahead of time, while at the same time giving more information to optimiser passes.

[fithisux]

It is an argument that you can make a faster C-like if you like out of C++