On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:32:31 -0400, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 06/04/2013 01:15 PM, Manu wrote:
* virtual is a one-way trip. It can't be undone without risking
breaking code
once released to the wild. How can that state be a sensible default?
- Can not be un-done by the compiler/linker like it can in other
(dynamic)
languages. No sufficiently smart compiler can ever address this problem
as an
optimisation.
Have to say that for me, this is a bit of a killer point. If a
programmer
mistakenly picks the default option instead of the desired qualifier,
ideally
you want the fix to be non-breaking.
Define non-breaking.
If your code still compiles but all of a sudden becomes horrendously slow,
is that a non-breaking change?
-Steve
