vtable with virtual base class?

From:
Dave Johansen <davejohansen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:56:39 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<85d7aea7-eda9-40f6-9c5c-743fc4dd49bf@b38g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
I've done some searching and haven't been able to an answer to this
question, but is a vtable (or any other sort of overhead) created/
added with using virtual inheritance to resolve the "diamond problem"
when there are no virtual functions?

For example, let's say that I have a setup like this

class base_data
{
  static const int NUM_VALUES = 5;
....
protected:
  int m_data[NUM_VALUES];
};

class data_reader : public virtual base_data
{
....
public:
  data_reader &operator>>(int &value)
  {
    value = data[m_index];

    m_index = (m_index + 1) % NUM_VALUES;

    return *this;
  }
....
protected:
  int m_index;
};

class data_writer : public virtual base_data
{
....
public:
  data_writer &operator<<(int value);
  {
    data[m_index] = value;

    m_index = (m_index + 1) % NUM_VALUES;

    return *this;
  }
....
protected:
  int m_index;
}

class data_reader_and_writer : public data_reader, public data_writer
{
....
};

I realize that the virtual inheritance used with data_reader/
data_writer allows data_reader_and_writer to have only a single
instance of the base_data class that is shared so the reading and
writing will happen from the same array (I realize that the read and
write indexes will be disjoint/independent in this implementation),
but is there anything else that's different about data_reader,
data_writer, or data_reader_and_writer (other than the single instance
of base_data, of course)? Anything else added to them? Or any sort of
performance penalty?

Thanks,
Dave

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