Re: Method call optimization.

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

DS> It was a thought, yes.

>> While it would make method lookup faster, it's only benefit over the current
>> method is faster lookup of the first call to a method but at the cost
>> of extra processing at startup time to cache methods that may never be used.

DS> Good point. Never mind--not worth it. Clearing out the cached methods makes 
DS> sense, rebuilding the cache doesn't. If someone really wants, I suppose we 
DS> could provide a method to allow this somehow. I can see front-loading the 
DS> expense being worth it occasionally. I think.

I was hoping that the vtbls would be self-operating. Without much need
to work hard on them.

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

<chaim>
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