Should operator overload methods be virtual?

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schveiguy at yahoo.com)'s article
> If the compiler could somehow
> optimize out all instances of the template function to reduce bloat, I
> think that would make it a little less annoying.

What is the sudden obsession with code bloat here lately?  Check out this
StackOverflow question that I posed a few weeks ago.  If anyone has a decent
answer to it, I'd love to hear it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1771692/when-does-template-instantiation-bloat-matter-in-practice