> On Jan 29, 2024, at 3:53 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel > <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > A person that overrides virtual methods does not always have control over > whether the method had been declared as virtual. With "final" the user can > tell the compiler that this method won't be overriden anymore and thus the > compiler can change virtual method calls to direct method calls (assuming the > compiler knows the class type involved for sure). It's similar to the WPO > devirtualisation pass the compiler supports just without the need to compile > the code twice.
I brought this up recently. Does final on classes actually do this or just final on methods? I didn't know you could even mark a method as "final" until now. Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
