On Friday, 14 November 2025 at 06:35:23 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
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I should point out, that I'm not advocating for alternative models ;-)
If you need (for example) the flexibility of a heterogeneous collection at runtime, then class-based dynamic dispatch via v-tables is (by far) the easiest and most idiomatic model to meet that need.
It prioritizes simplicity, clarity and maintainability (i.e. developers time and cognitive resources get the priority in this model).
Yes, it comes with some runtime overhead -> pointer indirection, cache misses..., but nonetheless, it is still likely to be suitable for most application-level development.
An alternative choice for modelling polymorphism will shift the priorities to something else all together.
