Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering Copyright (c) 2013 Syracuse University All rights reserved. http://surface.syr.edu/case Recent documents in Center for Advanced Systems and Engineering en-us Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:10:02 PST 3600 Flattening C++ Classes http://surface.syr.edu/case/1 http://surface.syr.edu/case/1 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:05:33 PDT Inheritance with derived classes and virtual functions are key design concepts in C++. Despite this, their use can result in significant degradation of run time performance. We present a class flattening tool, which we believe will help eliminate the overhead associated with virtual functions in C++ programs. A flattener may also prove useful in the reuse, debugging, and understanding of C++ components. This report deals with the issues associated with flattening, and then presents a detailed design of such a tool.

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