Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Benoît Jacob wrote:
>   
>> is the overhead for virtual methods a speed overhead ? 
>>     
>
> The overhead of a virtual method is an indirect jump (instead of a direct 
> one). This used to be a problem because it would throw off all prediction 
> done in modern CPUs, because they didn't predict indirect branches. I 
> don't know if that's still true.
>
> So, if you can, avoid virtuals if speed is an issue.
>   
Last time I tried to measure the speed overhead of a virtual method, 
that was about 3 years ago on a Pentium 3, and it would take millions of 
calls for the overhead to be noticeable. Which is quite possible when 
doing computations in a large matrix.

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Guillaume
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