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#devirtualization
A C++ Weekly episode reminded everyone of a free win: marking a class final lets the compiler devirtualize. We took the canonical example to GCC 16.1 at -O2 and read the actual assembly. Without final, GCC hedges with a runtime vtable check; with final, the whole call folds to mov eax, 42; ret. The asm is the proof.
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