From: "John Lam (CLR)" <jflam@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T11:34:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: runtime-modifying Kernel methods should be keywords

> PS: Incidentally... The comment on the blog entry you gave above
> mentions call site caches. I had a student try that for Ruby, and he
> found that it couldn't beat Ruby's built-in cache. The reason is
> probably the simplicity of Ruby's cache, excellent hardware cache
> behavior, and a good cache hit-rate.

Not sure what you mean by this - are you saying that the call site method caches did not improve perf at all in a modified version of Ruby?

-John