What's more, languages like Smalltalk which only have "virtual" dispatch achieve their performance by recognising that most dispatch is just to one type. And o

What's more, languages like Smalltalk which only have "virtual" dispatch achieve their performance by recognising that most dispatch is just to one type. And of the remaining cases, most of those are just to 2 types, etc. Pushing this further resulting in Strongtalk which lead to the Hotspot JVM [1]. [1] http://strongtalk.org/index.html http://strongtalk.org/index.html