On 11 Nov 2005, at 08:50, Micha Nelissen wrote:
What is "late binding" exactly ? What are you binding ?
Late binding means that the compiler doesn't have to be able to figure out at compile time whether or not a particular object understands a particular message (aka has a method with a particular name), or where this message is located in the VMT (so if you have two independent class hierarchies which implement method FOO, you can still use obj.foo() and get the correct method called in both cases).
In case the compiler knows the type, the implementation is the same as with regular OOP languages. If it doesn't, then the method call happens via some kind of hashtable lookup with caching.
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