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Re: [Q] Dylan to Java/JVM compiler?



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).

I imagine a GF call would map to a virtual method invocation, or a series of
such, in java? I can't really imagine implementing it any more efficiently
in any dylan implementation (but I know nothing!)

Roland