Anthra Norell wrote:
Would anyone who knows the inner workings volunteer to clarify whether or not every additional derivation of a class hierarchy adds an indirection to the base class's method calls and attribute read-writes.
More potential search layers rather than pointer indirection. But I doubt this is a bottleneck in very many programs. So I would more concern myself first with quickly writing correct code.
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