[burnished]

It might be more productive if you were to outright disagree with the statement instead of simply noting a claim that isn't strongly substantiated. If you have experiences that demonstrate to you that this claim is weak I'm sure everyone else would be interested in them (I know I would be!).

[vlovich123]

To add onto that, I tried several different hand rolled alternatives to a c++ vtable and the builtin functionality outperformed them all which was surprising. It’s entirely possible I didn’t know what I was doing but I think my point is that vtables are a language feature that compilers know how to reason about and apply optimizations to. Other concepts not so much.

[tux3]

Something to keep in mind when microbenchmarking virtual calls is that compilers will happily devirtualize them whenever possible.

[vlovich123]

Yeah I’m aware but I made sure the same devirtualization would apply in production too so the compiler doing any devirtualization was good. It was a bit surprising that vtables outperformed std::variant (and I had tried implementing my own hand rolled equivalent of that too).

[pid-1]

"what may be asserted without evidence, may be dismissed without evidence"

[burnished]

Where is your evidence for that claim? Seems like I should dismiss it out of hand.

[rzzzt]

QED.