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by tux3 1653 days ago
Something to keep in mind when microbenchmarking virtual calls is that compilers will happily devirtualize them whenever possible.
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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).