At 10:41 AM -0800 12/11/02, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
How much overhead do we expect (runtime) multimethods to have? I would guess it to be nontrivial, e.g. substantially worse than normal methods...I'd expect a non-trivial overhead to start, declining with time, only paid when calling methods or subs that could be potentially multimethod. I know a number of techniques to make the cost smaller, and they'll get implemented over time, but it'll likely never be free, at least not for perl.
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