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I mean it inlines the the method itself at the callsite, eliding the overhead of a method invocation altogether, whereas a normal (P)IC simply elides the overhe
by evaleverything2 10y ago
I mean it inlines the the method itself at the callsite, eliding the overhead of a method invocation altogether, whereas a normal (P)IC simply elides the overhead of a class+selector method lookup.
- chrisseaton 10y agoYeah I get that - but this inlining of the method itself within an IC, removing the method call overhead, has been done in every non-trivial dynamic language VM since the early 90s.