From: Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@...>
Date: 2004-04-25T08:19:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Psyco

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 00:32:34 +0900, ts wrote:

>>>>>> "K" == Kristof Bastiaensen <kristof@vleeuwen.org> writes:
> 
> K> A good way to speed up Ruby's method calling would be to 
> K> cache Class-information.  It should cache only one value,
> K> because mostly methods are called on the same class,
> K> except the generic ones (like each, etc..).  If it finds
> K> the same class, it could directly call the associated method,
> K> (with a dirty bit, if the method was changed recently).  Otherwise
> K> it would look up the method.
> 
>  What do you think that ruby do actually ?
> 
> svg% fgrep cache? eval.c
>     /* is it in the method cache? */
>     /* is it in the method cache? */
> svg%
>  

I meant caching at the point of invokation. 
Is this the way it is actually done in Ruby?