What is the difference between dynamic dispatch and late binding in C++?

Question

I\'ve recently read about the Dynamic Dispatch on Wikipedia and couldn\'t understand the difference between dynamic dispatch and late binding in C++.

When each one

Answer 1

In C++, both are same.

In C++, there are two kinds of binding:

• static binding — which is done at compile-time.
• dynamic binding — which is done at runtime.

Dynamic binding, since it is done at runtime, is also referred to as late binding and static binding is sometime referred to as early binding.

Using dynamic-binding, C++ supports runtime-polymorphism through virtual functions (or function pointers), and using static-binding, all other functions calls are resolved.