Re: Method call optimization.

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "NI" == Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Well, we could preload the vtbl with a _replace_me_ stub to do the
>> cacheing.

NI> Just leave vtable blank and fill it when we need it - that part of perl's
NI> mechanism is not the problem.

Aha, we're looking at to differnt dispatch methods.

I wanted the op to simply call through the vtbl. No pre-checking. Why
waste the code, for the usual case. So an active entry would handle
the wasted if.

(Aren't you the one that claimed that a call was faster than an if?)

<chaim>
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