On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:59:19AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > >I am tempted to commit the attached patch. Shaves ~22s off a release > >build, i.e. roughly 1.2% of total time. Not exactly much, but a dozen of > >such trivial changes will show... > > Couldn't we just remove clone() and implement a copy operator instead? > The instantiation will happen anyway...
Not really. 'clone()' operates on base class pointers and returns a full copy of the derived class object. Invoking a copy contructor would only copy the 'base class slice' of the derived object. Andre'
