posted by [identity profile] womble2.livejournal.com at 08:19pm on 30/05/2005
Those of us who actually know C++ know that virtual function calls are rather more expensive than ordinary function calls, since they generally can't benefit from inlining or branch prediction. The same goes for any indirect branching mechanism.

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