One of the underlying principles in the original definition of C++ by Bjarne 
Stroustrop (sp?) was this:

There should be no cost for features not used by a given program.

While it is not always possible to meet this design goal, most 
implementations of C++ come pretty close. For example, objects with no 
virtual methods don't have a virtual method table.

-- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems 

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