Re: Method call optimization.

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:24 AM 8/9/00 -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
>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.  ;-)


True, quite true. I should throw together a reasonable test program (with, 
say, LWP and Net::FTP) in perl 5 and see what the symbol tables look like.


                                        Dan

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