AMDG

Robert Dailey wrote:
> Well I'm not 100% sure of the performance impact RTTI will have on the
> application. What I've read is that RTTI can get very expensive in
> terms of executable size if you have a lot of classes in your application.

You should be able to switch between using RTTI and using ID's in the
dispatcher with
a few lines of code. *Measure the difference* before making decisions
for performance
considerations.

> Unfortunately I don't think I could get away with using strings since
> the network is assigning integral values to the packets in order to
> uniquely identify them.

Of course, if you need the ID's around anyway for other reasons, they are
not a problem. I wouldn't expend Herculean efforts to eliminate them.

> I like the string idea because it doesn't have the repetitive code in
> each derived class (the overridden GetID method that will be the same
> in each derived class).

struct WalkPacket : CRTPPacket<WalkPacket, PID_WALKPACKET> {}; ?