On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Joar Wingfors <j...@joar.com> wrote: > > On 24 dec 2009, at 15.16, Sherm Pendley wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, is that really a short-circuit in the >> message-passing machinery, or are all those selectors simply >> registered to point to the same IMP function? A useless bit of >> knowledge for us end-users, I know, but interesting just the same. > > > Short circuited. See: > > > <http://www.friday.com/bbum/2009/12/18/objc_msgsend-tour-part-3-the-fast-path/>
Wow, that's a *fascinating* read! Thanks! sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://www.camelbones.org _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
