Re: Method call optimization.

[Graham Barr]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:26:24PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "NI" == Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> NI> You just re-invented "look up the name in a hash table" ;-)
> 
> I thought I was saving the constant search along the @ISA, do it only
> once.

Well perl5 already does that. The first time a method is called it searchs
ISA, but it caches the result in the package the object is blessed
into, so next time it finds it without searching ISA

Graham.