From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-10-03T03:04:48+09:00
Subject: Re: R

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:34:22PM +0900, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Mauricio,
> 
> Monday, September 30, 2002, 7:16:57 PM, you wrote:
> 
> MF> Even w/ dynamic typing, method dispatching can be made quite fast: look
> MF> at Psyco, the specializing Python compiler. Not as relevant to AST tree
> MF> walks as to bytecode interpretation, though.
> 
> well, i think that we can combine hashing and offsets for method
> dispatching - just analyze the program and create offset entry in all
> classes for all method names we found

And sometimes per object too.
Plus those tables could be *huge* (consider accessors).
Plus methods defined later, and eval, and...

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