Quote: templates capture abstractions while retaining performance; at instantiation, compiler has the calling and called context; instantiated only if needed

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Templates are essential in C++ for capturing commonalities … First, template instantiations combine information from both definition … type information) is made available to [the] code generator. … Second, a C++ template is typically implicitly instantiated … semantics, automatically minimizing the footprint of an application. …   Google-1   Google-2

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