My memory on this is a little sketchy, but I think that when you make a call on a virtual function, the virtual function table must be consulted before method invocation, whereas non-virtual functions ...

Once more unto the breach, Dan tries to dispel the notion that C++ is a purely object-oriented language in which all classes must use virtual functions. Object-oriented programming employs a ...

Hi Everyone- Warning, this might be a bit long. Somewhat related to my question last week regarding polymorphism, and returning a fully qualified type. It is the same number crunching code. As before, ...