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		jrochkind1 on Nov 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Ruby Faster Doesn't ObjC do similar method dispatch? If so, is it considered a slow language also?

pjmlp on Nov 13, 2014 [–]

Yes.

It is quite common to cache methods (selectors) or just re-write them in the C subset, when optimizing code.

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