Analysis of the impact of the final keyword on the performance of C++ programs
Benjamin Summerton, author of the PSRayTracing ray tracing system, analyzed the impact on application performance of using the βfinalβ keyword, which appeared in the C++11 standard, in C++ code. The reason for testing was that there were claims floating around the Internet that using βfinalβ would improve performance, which were limited to value judgments without indicating the results of the changes. Benjamin's testing showed that the performance [β¦]