[sldev] Question on Overuse of virtual in C++

[Nicholaz Beresford]

Dirk,

did you find more of those virtualy in performance senstitiv
areas of the viewer?


Nick


Dirk Moerenhout wrote:
> For starters: I'm no C++ guru so I might be missing something. Feel
> free to enlighten me if so ;-)
> 
> My question is the following:
> Is there a purpose to declare a function virtual if you've no
> intention to overload it? As an example I'd like to take LLTreeNode.
> 
> In LLTreeNode we've "virtual LLTreeListener<T>* getListener(U32 index)
> const { return mListeners[index]; }"