Re: Virtual function call optimization
cppquester <cppquester@googlemail.com> wrote in
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On Sep 26, 6:51?pm, Paavo Helde <myfirstn...@osa.pri.ee> wrote:
cppquester <cppques...@googlemail.com> wrote in
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But as at least on some platforms late binding is used I found a
solution (for all platforms):
class B
{
public:
virtual void foo() {}
};
class D: public B
{
public:
void foo() { fooD();}
void fooD() {}
};
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
D* d = new D();
d->fooD();
return 0;
}
Just out of curiosity (as this gets discussed pretty often), how much
did avoiding this virtual call make your application faster? (I mean
your real application with realistic usage pattern and data, not the
empty example function here). How many percents did the slow
operation go faster?
thanks
Paavo
The project is actually an interpreter. If I use an (interpreted)
program which makes heavy use of the code path I just changed to avoid
the late binding, it speed up about 10%, which I find quite
remarkable. My system did use late binding before.
I think interpreters are one of the few fields where "every cycle
counts".
Ok, good to hear! I think you are right about interpreters.
In the above toy example the dynamic allocation would probably cost more
than the virtual dispatch, I guess in your real application dynamic
allocation (if any) does not happen so often.
Cheers
Paavo
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