Low-overhead components

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 13:28:40 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 July 2013 at 06:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
> wrote:
>> Not really an article or anything - this was planned as just a 
>> post to this newsgroup, but I decided to put it somewhere 
>> suitable for larger blocks of text with formatting:
>>
>> http://blog.thecybershadow.net/2013/07/28/low-overhead-components/
>
> On topic of proposals: what to you think about embedding 
> context pointer into struct when such alias is used? That will 
> require some enforcement from compiler if template instance 
> will be actually used as member field in same struct but avoid 
> template bloat and fits with existing behavior of nested 
> aggregates.

While not a bad proposal in itself, it's not very interesting in 
terms of performance. If we are to do pointers, then pointers to 
the lower layer aren't much harder to do by hand and save you the 
ECX (this pointer) adjustment when calling the lower layer's 
methods.