Regarding: Extension to runtime polymorphism

The problem with this kind of thing is that there is also an
"instruction cache" as well as a "data cache." Every time you run
more code you increase the risk of running off of, or thrashing your
instruction cache and taking instruction cache misses instead.

I understand the cache problems with virtual functions, but there are
problems with too much code bloat as well. Your examples describe
creating more cache pressure than just using a virtual function call.

(And I wouldn't advise waiting around for the authors of the C++
compilers to add JIT. It sounds like the latest standards have put a
lot of work in front of them.)



On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 7:44 AM Jason McKesson via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 4:48 PM Muneem via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > Recently, I faced some issues in writing code that relied heavily on repetitive branching, which forced me to use AI. This proposal proposes techniques to counter this, in cases where the overhead of single dispatch is highly undesirable.
>
> Have you considered that what you're trying to do is perhaps not an
> effective way to implement whatever that is? And that there's probably
> a better way that doesn't require using a `switch` in the middle of
> various functions?
>
> For example, let's take your initial code:
>
> ```
> void push_multiple_to_container(const std::string string_to_read_from,
> std::string::size_type* pos) {
> switch(static_cast<where_to_push_enum>(
> absolute_base::read_from_string<get_integer_for_size<sizeof(where_to_push_enum)>>))
> {
> case push_to_vector:
> implementation_template_function_f(vector, read_content_to_push);
> break;
> case push_to_deque:
> implementation_template_function_f(deque, read_content_to_push);
> break;
> // ... and so on
> }
> }
> ```
>
> I don't see where `where_to_push_enum` comes from. Since you're doing
> a `static_cast` to it, this is a type. I don't see a template header,
> so I'm guessing that this is a member of a template class where
> `where_to_push_enum` is provided as a template argument.
>
> So it stands to reason that you could reduce this function to
> something like this:
>
> ```
> implementation_template_function_f(_get_container(), read_content_to_push);
> ```
>
> Where `_get_container` has your switch/case statement and returns this
> container. And the containers it can return are appropriate for
> calling `implementation_template_function_f`.
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