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[LoanShark]

 >faster with all the above changes. So, no, we're not leaving it to the   
 >compiler or some bytecode intepreter to do some vodoo magic beyound our  
 
 >control, we do it ourself.   
   
 This is a nonsense statement. You just stated that you're using function 
pointers all over the place. That's not "doing it ourself", that's "not 
doing it at all", in terms of optimization. As for static constructors.. 
it's really unfortunate that the C++ ABI is still not portable enough to 
do static ctors/dtors as nicely as developers want it.. but the support is 
there. The only real problems I'm aware of are on Mac OS X and just apply 
to shared libraries... which shouldn't be a problem for you guys. (But 
it's been a while since I've looked at this area of C++ as I mainly 
develop in superior languages. ;)