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Read some of the papers on this site: http://strongtalk.org/ http://strongtalk.org/ What Java has came from Strongtalk (directly), which came from Self which
by loewenskind 16y ago
Read some of the papers on this site: http://strongtalk.org/ http://strongtalk.org/
What Java has came from Strongtalk (directly), which came from Self which was inspired by what Smalltalk does.
- KirinDave 16y agoYes, those are good papers and Self was fascinating. Care to go into more concrete detail?
- loewenskind 16y agoMy point is simply that inline caching doesn't have an extra jump. It's called inline cache because the caching is writen in place (inline) making calling a method the same as calling a function. The generated function just has a type check at the top to jump back to normal method call scemantics in the case of a miss.