Final class

[Daniel Kozak]

On Friday, 12 July 2013 at 05:13:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, July 12, 2013 07:03:07 Daniel Kozak wrote:
>> Are all methods in final class non-virtual or must be explicity
>> marked as a final too?
>
> They're virtual if they override base class functions, but 
> they're definitely
> all final. So, the compiler _should_ optimize the functions in 
> a final class
> which don't override anything so that they're non-virtual. 
> However, I'm not
> sure that there's actually any guarantee that final methods 
> which don't
> override anything will actually be made non-virtual. It's an 
> optimization
> based on the fact that the compiler can determine that it can 
> be made non-
> virtual rather than it explicitly being made non-virtual by the 
> programmer, so
> the compiler might not do it. It _should_, but I'm not sure 
> that it's
> guaranteed to.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Thanks