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    copied!<p>I know that the topic of "C++ delegates" has been done to death, and both <a href="http://www.codeproject.com" rel="noreferrer">http://www.codeproject.com</a> and <a href="http://stackoverflow.com">http://stackoverflow.com</a> deeply cover the question. </p> <p>Generally, it seems that <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/FastDelegate.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Don Clugston's fastest possible delegate</a> is the first choice for many people. There are a few other popular ones.</p> <p>However, I noticed that most of those articles are old (around 2005) and many design choices seem to have been made taking in account old compilers like VC7.</p> <p>I'm in need of a very fast delegate implementation for an audio application. </p> <p>I still need it to be portable (Windows, Mac, Linux) but I only use modern compilers (VC9, the one in VS2008 SP1 and GCC 4.5.x). </p> <p>My main criteria are:</p> <ul> <li>it must be fast! </li> <li>it must be forward-compatible with newer versions of the compilers. I have some doubts about that with Don's implementation because he explicitly states it's not standard-compliant.</li> <li>optionally, a KISS-syntax and ease-of-use is nice to have</li> <li>multicast would be nice, although I'm convinced it's really easy to build it around any delegate library</li> </ul> <p>Furthermore, I don't really need exotic features. I just need the good old pointer-to-method thing. No need to support static methods, free functions or things like that.</p> <p>As of today, what is the recommended approach? Still use <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/FastDelegate.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Don's version</a>? Or is there a "community consensus" about another option? </p> <p>I really don't want to use Boost.signal/signal2 because it's not acceptable in terms of performance. A dependency on QT is not acceptable as well.</p> <p>Furthermore, I've seen some newer libraries while googling, like for example <a href="http://code.google.com/p/cpp-events/" rel="noreferrer">cpp-events</a> but I couldn't find any feedback from users, including on SO.</p>
 

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