The Fundamentals of C/C++ Game Programming (2017)

There's no such thing as a free abstraction lunch.

What is often meant by that is "This is a zero run-time cost abstraction". That's a very different thing from a zero cost abstraction.

Even if the abstraction actually has a zero run-time cost, which is absolutely not a give, it still has a compile-time cost and a human-time cost.

See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIkrotSwcc

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