From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-07-04T12:11:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Rails performance profiling?

Juergen Strobel wrote:
> Lisp (CLOS) has an even more complicated method dispatch than Ruby,
> since it may have to search up the parent classes of all parameters
> (multi dispatch) and MI is allowed. History shows this type of method
> dispatch can be highly optimized and be made very performant.
>
> It sure took some time for Lisp to reach this stage though.
>   
And most Lisp processors have the ability to compile to machine code.

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