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gorset on March 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why we didn't use a bloom filter

> a) How can you make standard-OOP-like method dispatch faster than vtables?

The JVM optimizes this by using (P)ICs, which are faster than regular vtables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching

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