On 12/6/2013 4:40 PM, Manu wrote:
Assuming a comparison to C++,
This is a comparison to C; a comparison to C++ is something else.
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.
I know well that people used to C++ will likely do this. However, one can get in the habit of by default adding "final:" as the first line in a class definition, and then the compiler will tell you which ones need to be made virtual.
