> Instead of having slots and dictionaries as a vtable thing, let's experiment with just dictionaries. Objective-C as a language is entirely based on messages a

> Instead of having slots and dictionaries as a vtable thing, let's experiment with just dictionaries. Objective-C as a language is entirely based on messages and it has made huge advances in making their calls fast. Their calls are from what I can see much faster than Python's calls in the best case. Strings are interned anyways in Python, making comparisons very fast. I bet you it's not slower and even if it was a tiny bit slower, it's a much simpler system that would be easier to optimize.