[Issue 1657] Virtual template methods in classes

[Brad Roberts]

Only for fully statically linked apps.  For any application involving 
.so's, they could change in nice fun arbitrary ways.  There's no linker 
(not even the app loader) that has visibility into every aspect of the set 
of code that will be running until after its way too late to be making 
vtable layout changes.

Ok, in some theory the loader could be powerful enough to freeze the 
entire app and examine the vtables, see what needs to change, walk through 
all memory to adjust any function pointers that need to be adjusted, etc.  
But it's rather far outside the bounds of reasonable for a compiled 
language. :)

Later,
Brad