Is Template Metaprogramming faster than the equivalent C code?

Question

Is Template Metaprogramming faster than the equivalent C code ? ( I\'m talking about the runtime performance) :)

Answer 1

Template metaprogramming can be thought of as compile-time execution.

The compile-time is going to take longer to compile your code since it has to compile and then execute the templates, generate code, then compile again.

The run-time overhead I am not sure about, it shouldn't be much more than if you wrote it yourself in C code I would imagine.