Re:The cost of dynamic vs. static dispatch in C++ (2013)
by ginko on Saturday February 28, 2015 @12:30PM
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>If C++ will exist in 10 years from now, I predict 'virtual' to be just yet another legacy keyword.
I really doubt that. Not so much because of the virtual call overhead, but because there's plenty of cases where you really want control over how your class objects and structs look in memory. Adding a vtable entry to every struct is something you really don't want in many cases.
I really doubt that. Not so much because of the virtual call overhead, but because there's plenty of cases where you really want control over how your class objects and structs look in memory. Adding a vtable entry to every struct is something you really don't want in many cases.