I guess I'm complaining more about the reader than the writer. It does provide a useful approach to test specific implementations. It gives good insight as to w

I guess I'm complaining more about the reader than the writer. It does provide a useful approach to test specific implementations. It gives good insight as to why certain features are to be avoided for performance, ie multiple inheritance, virtual functions under virtual inheritance, RTTI. The section on exception handling says that there are compiler dependent code size increases and speed is impacted (5% - 10%) even if it is not triggered. That contradicts Stroustrup in Design and Evolution of C++ where its stated that it should be the same cost as a function call. I've heard other people say that exception handling is now "free". I should spend less time gaining second hand information and more time trying this stuff out myself.