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). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.