Embedded C developers shy away from C++ out of concern for performance. The class construct is one of their main concerns. My previous article Code Craft – Embedding C++: Classes explored ...

I have read in several books (including a book on using QT toolkit) warning about using C++'s virtual function because of performance penalty.But they are quite vague on why this is so. Can ...

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When I'm using the this pointer in the base class to call a virtual function it basically ignores the virtual part and treats the class as just normal inheiratance.<BR><BR>Is this the normal ...