Re: virtual-by-default rant

[David Nadlinger]

On Sunday, 18 March 2012 at 16:02:04 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Is this even possible without LTO/WPO? Extending a class 
defined in a library you link in (and for which codegen 
already happened) is certainly possible…

David

This is not even possible with LTO because new classes
could be loaded at runtime.

Sure, you can't just devirtualize everything you come across even 
with LTO, but it greatly increases the portion of calls where you 
can deduce the actual type of an instance.

David