[fulafel]

Sorry! That's a risk you have when following comments tightly :)

I'll reconstruct my first take from memory if you have comments on it:

Current CPUs are pretty good at predicting indirect branches, and it's hard to tell beforehand which virtual calls still turn out to be perf problems - and it's wasted effort and a fallible process to attempt their compllete elimination beforehand.

[mehrdadn]

Right, and I posted my reply to that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17504680