At 09:44 AM 10/6/2001 -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
>Simon Cozens:
># On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:24:46AM -0500, Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs wrote:
># > 1.) Will each different "type" of PMC have its own vtable, function
># > definitions, etc or will they all share everything with
># switches on type in
># > the function definitions.
>#
># They'll each have their own, to make overloading possible.
>
>But to save memory space they'll use a preallocated one until something
>gets overloaded, right?
Right. PMCs get the package default vtable (or at least one of them) until
you explicitly fiddle with entries, in which case we clone the table and
modify the now-private clone.
Dan
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