Re: Access to virtual functions much slower
parag wrote:
For the a given hierarchy
class A{
virtual bool isUselessFunc() = 0;
};
class B : public A {
bool isUselessFunc() {
return true;
}
};
class C : public B
{
bool OtherFunc() {
return false;
}
};
Today if we have a pointer to a Object of Class C , ( in a pointer of
A )
C * c = new C ():
A* a = c;
I need to acces c->isUselessFunc() many times in a code , I see that
in the collect report , it is one of the top most used functions.
Is there any way we could reduce this footprint, but having all the
class deriving from Class B have their own non virtual version ???
I am not sure to have understood your English, but perhaps what you are
searching for is to replace the following call:
c->isUselessFunc()
with the following one:
c->B::isUselessFunc()
The latter call avoids the virtual function call overhead, and it may be
inlined to avoid the function call at all.
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