My memory on this is a little sketchy, but I think that when you make a call on a virtual function, the virtual function table must be consulted before method invocation, whereas non-virtual ...

In object technology, a function that has a default operation for a base class, but which can be overridden and perform a different operation by a derived class. A derived class inherits the ...

I ask because it doesn't seem to be for me. I've got a number of classes that inherit from a base class with some virtual functions. When I have a base class pointer everything works fine as it should ...