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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:40:07 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C
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Kyle Moffett wrote:
> With that said, there is a significant performance penalty as all 
> Objective-C method calls are looked up symbolically at runtime for every 
> single call.

GACK!

At least C++ has vtables.

	-hpa

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