From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-06-21T11:50:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03571] Re: function objects?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03564] Re: function objects?"
    on 00/06/20, Johann Hibschman <johann@physics.berkeley.edu> writes:

|I'm afraid I don't understand how this would affect things.  But
|that's another story.  I have to play with Ruby a bit more before I
|start trying to understand how its design choices affect optimization.

That's simple story.  The languages return method object with `obj.m',
then invoke it by `obj.m(args)', tend to do these 2 steps literally,
e.g. Python does so.  On the other hand, Ruby does this by 1 step with
performance accelerating method cache.

							matz.