[gameprogrammer] Re: detecting class type at runtime
- From: Kevin Jenkins <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:30:31 -0700
Games usually have RTTI disabled through the project properties. RTTI slows
down your application by about 15%.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Matthew Weigel <unique@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18.04.2012 08:36, Jonathan Dearborn wrote:
>
> C++ does not have true reflection capabilities. However, you can use RTTI
>> in the form of dynamic_cast:
>>
>
> It doesn't have true reflection, but you can go a little further than
> dynamic cast and actually use the typeid operator.
>
> A basic example of getting at the name of a class is here:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-**us/library/fyf39xec.aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fyf39xec.aspx>
>
> (Note that for some things, you can use type_info::hash_code to be a
> little more efficient)
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> Matthew Weigel
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