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Indeed. If anything this demo shows how badly C++ polymorphism performs. It doesn't necessarly means that all OOP languages created equal. Although I have no data to prove anything, and frankly don't care b/c all these arguments about clean vs dirty code are meaningless in an absence of formally defined rules and metrics universally enforced by some authority that can revoke your sw dev license or something like that

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> It doesn't necessarly means that all OOP languages created equal.

Exactly - unless you're trying very hard, you're unlikely to beat C++ polymorphism with your OOP code in a different language. Which makes Casey's argument that much stronger. C++ with its relatively unsophisticated OOP and minimal overhead on everything, is as fast as you're going to get, so it's good for showing just how slow that still is if you follow the Uncle Bob et al. Clean Code tradition.

> C++ with its relatively unsophisticated OOP and minimal overhead on everything, is as fast as you're going to get

No it isn't. If your C++ compiler isn't devirtualising at all (implied by the article) it'll get stomped on by anything doing inline caching [0] which will generate the switch-case code. The JVM does that for example.

[0] https://bibliography.selflanguage.org/_static/pics.pdf

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