[MOAB-dev] Discussion on return type of MOAB routines

[Jed Brown]

"Tim Tautges (ANL)" <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> On 01/22/2014 01:21 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
>> "Tim Tautges (ANL)" <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>> This depends on how often it happens.  In all cases, IMO, a success condition should result in nothing more than a
>>> POD-sized object (and I should add, no virtual table).
>>
>> vtables are just pointers like any other in terms of performance.
>>
>
> Sure but we still don't want that extra expense.

Sure, just saying that two pointers costs the same as a pointer and an
int/enum.  So if you want to replace the enum (non-extensible) with a
derived class (extensible), it will not have a performance impact.
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