Michel Fortin: > 1. It manages a list of registered classes, and their associated methods. > 2. It provides a method dispatch mechanism, and manages a list of > registered selectors. > 3. It provides various support routines for the compiler (exception > handling, synchronization). > > For comparison, the D runtime does half of 1, and whole of 3, and a lot > more.
Note that if you add that 2 to the D runtime, you can do a significant percentage of the things the new "dynamic typing" feature of C#4 does :-) (It's less transparent still and only for classes). Bye, bearophile
