On 7 December 2013 08:52, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/6/2013 2:40 PM, bearophile wrote: > >> And when a D compiler because of separate compilation can't de-virtualize >> a virtual class method call. >> > > Can C devirtualize function calls? Nope. > Assuming a comparison to C++, you know perfectly well that D has a severe disadvantage. Unless people micro-manage final (I've never seen anyone do this to date), then classes will have significantly inferior performance to C++. C++ coders don't write virtual on everything. Especially not trivial accessors which must be inlined.
