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Re: [Q] Dylan to Java/JVM compiler?
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To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: [Q] Dylan to Java/JVM compiler?
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From: Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com>
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 16:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
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References: <200105031358.JAA29383@life.ai.mit.edu>
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Xref: traf.lcs.mit.edu comp.lang.dylan:13240
Rob Myers wrote:
> But the dispatch model is so different that Dylan code
> compiled to Java could be very inefficient (although I suppose it would
> "only" be a tree of switch statements for each GF call).
The whole idea in Dylan is to minimize the number of fully-general GF
dispatches that need to be made through compile-time analysis.
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