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Embedded C developers shy away from C++ out of concern for performance. The class construct is one of their main concerns. My previous article Code Craft – Embedding C++: Classes explored ...

Calls to virtual functions have to be resolved by a jump table as to which (physically distinct) object they refer to; that pointer is then placed in "this".<BR><BR>Edit: apparently it's not only ...

In practice, each virtual function requires actual hardware resources in the silicon, and so the number of virtual functions implemented in production devices tends to be far fewer than this. A more ...