So I don't know much about anything, but I'm confused on this point. You say "This effectively means it always performs late binding and invoking a message is

So I don't know much about anything, but I'm confused on this point. You say "This effectively means it always performs late binding and invoking a message is REALLY slow in Objective-C." But I can't find any evidence of Objective-C performing late binding or in documentation [1][2][3][4]. [1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5943949/late-binding-vs-dynamic-binding http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5943949/late-binding-vs-d... [2] - http://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/resources/ObjCFun.html http://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/resources/ObjCFun.html [3] - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/general/conceptual/DevPedia-CocoaCore/DynamicBinding.html http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/genera... [4] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9470824/dynamic-binding-late-binding-in-java-or-not http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9470824/dynamic-binding-l...