Here are some additional informations for the tutorial.

Source code for Unix based line ending is oopsla.tgz.

Source code for DOS based line ending is oopsla.zip.

Here are some additional references:

Some interesting comparisons between C and C++ performance:
Bjarne Stroustrup: Learning Standard C++ as a New Language, C/C++ User's Journal, Vol. 17 No. 5, May 1999, p. 43ff

A bit old, but interesting details about performance in C++ in general:
Martin D. Carroll, Margaret A. Ellis: Designing and Coding Reusable C++, Addison-Wesley 1995, ISBN 0-201-51284-X

Also old, but still contains important information about large projects:
John Lakos: Large-Scale C++ Software Design, Addison-Wesley 1996, ISBN 0-201-63362-0

Andrei Alexandrescu's Loki library is avialable at http://sourceforge.net/projects/loki-lib/

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