Re: gEDA-user: interesting links

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If you have 300 foo objects you have 1full copy with all of the
> functions and 299 data only copies.  Of I recall correctly.

Not quite.

If you have 300 foo objects, you have one "virtual table" that has all
the pointers-to-methods, and 300 foo structures, each with a pointer
to the virtual table plus the object-specific data.

The pointer to the virtual table is, in effect, the object's "type".


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