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Via pattern-matching at the moment: X foo: Y := ... X foo: Z := ... Both of these are inserted on X, which is used as `self` in the method body (so in

by vito 16y ago

Via pattern-matching at the moment: X foo: Y := ... X foo: Z := ... Both of these are inserted on X, which is used as `self` in the method body (so instance variables, etc. work as expected too). It's one method, `foo:`, which pattern-matches on its arguments to determine which branch to evaluate.

riffraff 16y ago
I see, but does this play well with the jit? What I mean is: wouldn't multimethods with many variants cause exponentially bigger thunks to inline, thus causing the JIT to not perform inlining at all? Thanks for your answer anyway, it looks like a really fun project.
- evanphx 16y ago
  Looking at the bytecode, the JIT handles it fine. atomo pattern matching is the equivalent of using a case;when in the body. And because it's scoped to a certain class and name, I doubt it would have the overflow problem that lisp multimethods have, where you only have the name to bind functionality to.