From: Anteru (newsgroups_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-14 13:56:59
Peter Dimov schrieb:
> In practice, the reason to disable RTTI is simple: it leads to smaller
> executables. Most of the size penalty comes from the typeid().name()
> strings, which need to be emitted conservatively for every polymorphic
> type.
Some numbers: I enabled RTTI testwise now, and my binaries are now 10%
larger. (800 -> 880 kb). I had previously only exceptions enabled, but
no RTTI. Compiler is VC9/x64
Cheers,
Anteru