not sure why you would think that! objective-c uses a dispatch method for message-passing which is a little slower than direct function calls, but it rarely sl

not sure why you would think that! objective-c uses a dispatch method for message-passing which is a little slower than direct function calls, but it rarely slows things down in practice. even if it does, there are ways around it: for speed-critical code you can circumvent message-passing and call functions directly. cocoa code ends up being compiled, after all. that makes it lots faster than the latest scripting languages.