On 3/31/2014 8:43 AM, Bill Vyzas wrote: > Hi all, > > I am curious to know why PowerTOP is using C++ as the language of > implementation but the majority of the program is written with the C > standards. I checked also some other > open source programs like the Gnome Power Manager and its doing the same > thing. > > I know that C++ can also call C and I also know that there are couple of > classes on the program but why use C++ for a few classes when you can have > structs, which are > basically classes, instead. > C++ and objects are a very useful paradigm for certain things (especially if they map to actual physical things)... and powertop uses that. I'm not one of those people who goes overboard and sees objects for things that are not really objects, just pieces of data.

On 3/31/2014 8:54 AM, Bill Vyzas wrote: > What the physical things will be in the case of powertop? Are we talking > about device drivers and cpu measurements? > powertop builds a power model of the devices in your computer, from fans to USB devices to CPU to ... you name it. to model those, it uses C++ style objects in a class hierarchy