Re: Method call optimization.

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:16:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 10:01 AM 8/9/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >But for the generic object. The package itself can contain an indirection
> >table. This would be that sparse table with the offset in the object vtbl.
> 
> That's going to be a very sparse table, though. It needs to have as many 
> entries as there are sub names, be able to grow as new subs are defined, 
> and have to be duplicated for each package.
> 
> I can see that getting very big.

Maybe, maybe not.  Your intuition might be backwards.  ;-)

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