Some performance questions

[Lars Kyllingstad]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:27 PM, grauzone <none at example.net> wrote:
>> Why not use scope to allocate the class on the stack?
>> For everything else, I agree with Donald Knuth (if he really said that...)
> 
> That's fine too, and would fit in with his needs to implement
> interfaces.  But again, if he's worried about caching some parameters
> but not worried about the overhead of virtual calls.. something's off.

You're assuming too much programming knowledge and carelessness on my 
part. I merely wanted to know if the second solution would be 
significantly slower than the first one. Caching of the parameters would 
be a bonus, as would caching of additional output and the ability to use 
interfaces.

-Lars