Re: Method call optimization.

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:35 PM 8/9/00 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:32:41PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> > Each sub has a unique number.
> >
> > Package A - Has nothing blessed, doesn't need the lookup table
> >
> > Package B - Has blessed items, lookup table for all subs that are part
> >           of the package, or in the inheritance tree.
>
>Are you thinking of assigning a unique number to every sub seen in
>every package?
>
>An alternate method might be:
>
>Each sub is assigned an index.  This index is unique for the package
>the sub is in, and all ancestor packages.

The first runtime reassignment of @ISA shoots this one down hard. Sorry. 
(MI also makes it more difficult, since dependency trees will have to be 
built...)

                                        Dan

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