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Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Languages With Polymorphic Inline Caches

14 points by qwph 18y ago

Hexstream 18y ago
This provides good insight into some of the techniques used to make intuitively slow dynamic operations very fast in practice!
hugh 18y ago
It'd be nice to have a [pdf] warning in the title of this one.
- qwph 18y ago
  I don't think I can edit it now. I'd guess it's because it's not a direct link, so it bypassed the pdf logic. Apologies.
  - Hexstream 18y ago
    Perhaps the submission page could have a PDF checkbox with the default state taken from the PDF autodetection function? This way we could correct the autodetection when it fails. Also it would ensure a uniform title "tagging" style. Now that I think about it we could have radio buttons: Regular, PDF, Movie, Picture.
markplusplus 18y ago
Good paper, but I wonder how relevant these optimizations are now that modern processors include indirect branch predictors.
fuzzy-waffle 18y ago
Sounds similar to http://psyco.sourceforge.net/ http://psyco.sourceforge.net/