Hi all, I have been going through GOOPS more carefully recently, preparing to make GOOPS and code that uses GOOPS compilable, preserving all of the intended optimizations. It turns out the dispatch mechanism is rather interesting. I write about it here:
http://wingolog.org/archives/2008/10/17/dispatch-strategies-in-dynamic-languages Also, I've been reading this paper this evening, and it's *fantastic*: http://research.sun.com/self/papers/pics.html Happy hacking, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/