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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Virtual function call optimization
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:47:14 +0900
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Richard Damon <news.x.richarddamon@xoxy.net> writes:

> Another method, if you are willing to upgrade to C++11, and the object
> definition allows it, is to declair foo() to be final, as in
...
> class D: public B
> {
> public:
> void foo() final ( ... }
> }
>
> since D::foo is final, late binding is not needed if the pointer has
> static type D.

Or sometimes more conveniently, declaring the whole class D to be final:

   class D final : public B
   {
     public:
       void foo();
   };

(which has the advantage that it will make all methods final, even those
D doesn't override)

-miles

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