抛开语义上的原因不谈，在对象被构造之后才有虚表，因此虚表的指定是无用的。

虚函数基本上提供多态行为。也就是说，当您使用的对象的动态类型与引用它的静态(编译时)类型不同时，它提供的行为适合于对象的实际类型，而不是对象的静态类型。

现在尝试将这种行为应用于构造函数。当你构造一个对象时，静态类型总是与实际的对象类型相同，因为:

要构造一个对象，构造函数需要它要创建的对象的确切类型[…]此外[…]]则不能有指向构造函数的指针

Bjarne Stroustup (P424 c++编程语言SE)

你也不应该在构造函数中调用虚函数。参见:http://www.artima.com/cppsource/nevercall.html

另外，我不确定是否真的需要虚拟构造函数。你可以在没有它的情况下实现多态构造:你可以编写一个函数，根据所需的参数构造你的对象。

When a constructor is invoked, although there is no object created till that point, we still know the kind of object that is gonna be created because the specific constructor of the class to which the object belongs to has already been called. Virtual keyword associated with a function means the function of a particular object type is gonna be called. So, my thinking says that there is no need to make the virtual constructor because already the desired constructor whose object is gonna be created has been invoked and making constructor virtual is just a redundant thing to do because the object-specific constructor has already been invoked and this is same as calling class-specific function which is achieved through the virtual keyword. Although the inner implementation won’t allow virtual constructor for vptr and vtable related reasons.

Another reason is that C++ is a statically typed language and we need to know the type of a variable at compile-time. The compiler must be aware of the class type to create the object. The type of object to be created is a compile-time decision. If we make the constructor virtual then it means that we don’t need to know the type of the object at compile-time(that’s what virtual function provide. We don’t need to know the actual object and just need the base pointer to point an actual object call the pointed object’s virtual functions without knowing the type of the object) and if we don’t know the type of the object at compile time then it is against the statically typed languages. And hence, run-time polymorphism cannot be achieved. Hence, Constructor won’t be called without knowing the type of the object at compile-time. And so the idea of making a virtual constructor fails.

与面向对象的语言(如Smalltalk或Python)不同，这些语言的构造函数是表示类的对象的虚拟方法(这意味着您不需要GoF抽象工厂模式，因为您可以传递表示类的对象，而不是自己创建)，c++是一种基于类的语言，并且没有表示语言的任何构造的对象。该类在运行时不作为对象存在，因此不能对其调用虚方法。

这符合“不用就不用付钱”的理念，尽管我所见过的每个大型c++项目最终都实现了某种形式的抽象工厂或反射。

尽管由于对象类型是对象创建的先决条件，所以虚拟构造函数的概念不太适合，但它并没有完全被推翻。

GOF的“工厂方法”设计模式利用了虚拟构造函数的“概念”，这在某些设计情况下很方便。