Infographics: Operation Costs in CPU Clock Cycles - IT Hare on Soft.wareAnother way of approaching the same question is to say that “hey, I’m calling virtual function once per piece of code which is like 10000 cycles, so virtualisation won’t eat more than 1% of the program time” – but you still need some kind of way to see an order of magnitude for the related costs – and the diagram above will still come in handy 🙁 . Preliminaries aside, let’s take a closer look at
