Re: Method call optimization.

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Chaim Frenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>> "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.

Whoops - I missed change of topic.

>
>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?)

Issue is othogonal - my "leave it blank" could just as easily be 
your _replace_me_ stub.

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Nick Ing-Simmons