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Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by muricula on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:11PM (#34974905)
The enum to tell what shape an object is costs something, probably 4 bytes. Storing the 8 byte vtable constant isn't so bad considering.
Re:“Clean” Code, Horrible Performance by adamrezich on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @03:40PM (#34987994)
looking at a value is faster than dereferencing a pointer—why is this controversial?