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Re:Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism by drmikeando on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:59PM (#47160834)
While this is a great article, I feels it buries the lede.

For me, the key insight was from the last paragraph of the article:

C++23 introduces "deducing this", which is a way to avoid the performance cost of dynamic dispatch without needing to use tricks like CRRT, by writing:

    class Base {
    public:
      auto foo(this auto&& self) -> int { return 77 + self.bar(); }
    };

    class Derived : public Base {
    public:
      auto bar() -> int { return 88; }
    };
I wish the article had gone into more details on how this works and when you can use it, and what its limitations are.
Re:Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism by dalvrosa on Thursday February 26, 2026 @08:10AM (#47165575)
Thanks for the feedback, I'll consider expanding in a separate post