Re: [Boost-users] [exception] RTTI

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