[LLVMdev] isa and friends as an alternative to dynamic cast?

[Jeff Cohen]

That's a good point.

Evan Jones wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-21-04 at 19:43 -0700, Reid Spencer wrote:
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>>In case it wasn't obvious from Misha's answer, the main reason for
>>doing this is speed. RTTI is not very quick.
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>Right. This is why I was somewhat suprized to see the "isa" facilities
>included in LLVM without also disabling rtti. It will reduce the memory
>footprint a fair bit if you do disable it, at least based on my
>experience with other C++ projects.
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>Evan Jones
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