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From: gorry@tragicomix.liu.se (Goran Rydquist)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Messages?
Message-ID: <576@tragicomix.liu.se>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 20:15:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  4 20:15:30 1987
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Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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Anyone know how the lookup of the messages are done in a normal
implementation of Smalltalk, or any other OO language?

Although the concept of inheritance is very powerful, it is clearly
associated with overhead from running around hierarchies to find
methods. Couldn't that processing overhead be traded against memory?
The inheritance concept should preferably not be thrown away, but kept
conceptually. Any ideas?

gorr\/						gorry@majestix.liu.se
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