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Sometimes C++ is faster

Posted Jun 19, 2008 18:06 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Sometimes C++ is faster by cate
Parent article: Converting GCC to C++

Oh, yeah, you have to jump to the VMT first, so two dereferences it is. 
Sometimes there are *more* than two, though (and sometimes there are none, 
as when the compiler can determine the static type of the instance: this 
happens more often than you might expect).

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