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In article <MEISSNER.91Apr16121331@curley.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:

[linker optimisation of function calls]

>Except of course if you are using object oriented techniques, and are
>calling through a function pointer.  In which case, the linker has to
>fall back to the normal case of using fixed defaults.

I don't understand the logic here.  Object oriented techniques are ways
of designing code, not of implementing it.  I know of no evidence that
OOD leads to code with greater dynamic functional variability than other
techniques.

Even if, for some reason, the prototyping tools use function pointers
to increase development efficiency, the production code will probably
use constant pointers (or write-once pointers, as the case may be).
Propagating the constant value to the call sites is one of the simplest
global optimisations a linker can do, and of couse the door is then
opened to all the other neat tricks.