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by dblohm7 93 days ago
Agreed. Nitpicking about indirection is definitely a "premature micro-optimization is the root of all evil" moment.

When I worked on Firefox, we eventually had to remove a bunch of indirection (the interested can actually search bugzilla.mozilla.org for deCOMtamination for some instances of this), but that project wasn't a thing until there was clear evidence that there were problems with virtual function calls on hot paths.