On Jun 7, 2004, at 7:01 PM, Trey Jackson wrote:
>  I'm unfamiliar with typeid - and how it's implemented.
> 
>  Does anyone have good pointers to how typeid is generally implemented?
>  Or even specifically: I'm using gcc3.x on RH Linux.

It's typically a virtual function call. The only performance problem 
I'd expect is due to comparison of typids, which in many cases must 
resort to a string comparison of the type names.

	Doug

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