[OT] My C++ talk at GoingNative 2013

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On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 06:24:26 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2013-09-10 14:54, Olivier Grant wrote:
>> First of all, I very much enjoyed the talk. It was as 
>> interesting as it
>> was entertaining.
>
> Yes, I enjoyed it as well.
>
>> I do have a question regarding the talk's section on 
>> devirtualization.
>> As a language that imposes virtual methods for classes, how 
>> well does D
>> play when it comes to devirtualization? And on a side note, 
>> does D have
>> a different way of implementing virtual methods than most C++ 
>> compilers do?
>
> In D it seems that currently the preferred way to compile a 
> project is to compile all the source at once using RDMD or 
> similar. Isn't that a great opportunity for full program 
> analysis to do devirtualization?

No because export is ill defined. But it definitively should.