14 Feb
2009
14 Feb
'09
5:44 a.m.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Mathias Gaunard < mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
Gokulakannan Somasundaram wrote:
I got even better results for switch with Visual Studio, but on Linux gcc
4.3.2, i am getting almost equal values for both. But we can say for sure that Boost Variant is not as fast as the direct function call. . That's why i am requesting a feature to allow limited functionality of templates inside the virtual functions.
Well you can't do dynamic dispatch any faster than with a switch.
Ok! i think i am not able to put forward my point. My request is to replace switch / dynamic dispatch with a compile time optimization with templates.