On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 6:22:54 PM UTC-5, gneuner2 wrote:
> I *think* Brendan is referring to caching the dispatch path - i.e. once 
> you've determined the proper function to call for a set of arguments, 
> you cache the arguments (or their relevant characteristics) and the 
> resulting function, so if you see them again you don't need to go 
> through the whole dispatch process.

Yes, sorry for being unclear. "Inline caching" is apparently the technical 
name, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching

My understanding from when I first read about this was that it's used in 
production runtime implementations, but I'm not positive about that (it was a 
while ago).

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