Virtual methods

[BCS]

Hello dsimcha,

> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> 
>> Believe it or not, you can do profile guided optimizations with the
>> dmd profiler and optlink. The profiler will emit a file to be passed
>> to the linker which will set the layout of functions to minimize
>> paging.
>> 
> Is that still a relevant optimization?  It probably made sense circa
> 1995 when computers had much less memory, but now I would think that
> binaries are so much smaller than a typical computer's memory that
> they almost never get paged out.
> 

It's still valid (to an extent) for two reasons; careful placement of code 
can make things load faster by causing a more ideal page load order (all 
code starts paged out) and if you turn your head and squint, the CPU cache 
looks like paged memory.

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