There’s also a check for method swizzling and other invalidation, assuming that 
there is cooperation from the runtime. Unless I’m misunderstanding what you 
mean by the selector changing?

Saagar Jha

> On Dec 16, 2019, at 00:16, Jean-Daniel <mail...@xenonium.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Le 16 déc. 2019 à 06:05, Saagar Jha <saa...@saagarjha.com 
>> <mailto:saa...@saagarjha.com>> a écrit :
>> 
>> It’s been a while, but I just thought you both might be interested in some 
>> follow-up I did for this idea. I implemented it for fun in clang 
>> <https://github.com/saagarjha/expresscall> and it turns out that it’s a 
>> pretty decent performance win 
>> <https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/12/15/bypassing-objc-msgsend/> over 
>> objc_msgSend, both because it dispatches faster and because the compiler can 
>> do a full inline through it.
> 
> Yes, but you don't preserve the objc_msgSend semantic.
> 
> If I understand you code correctly, all you do is checking if it is the same 
> ISA, which does not guarantee in anyway that the selector did not change 
> since the previous call.        
> 
> As classes are fully dynamic and methods can be swizzle, you must perform a 
> full IMP lookup for every calls, which complexly defeat the purpose of inline 
> caching.
> 

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