Oct. 26, 2000
2:58 p.m.
"PP" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:
PP> I agree that the slot stuff is broken but my solution would be PP> to junk it and use the same mechanism for looking up "type PP> methods" and "instance methods". I can think of two ways to PP> make that perform reasonably: one is method caching and the PP> other is by building interface objects where methods are PP> invoked by index -- basically vtables. But if the same PP> mechanism is going to accelerate Python and C types alike then PP> it can't really use C++ vtables because how do you generate a PP> vtable at runtime for a new Python class? (you could also PP> think of it as a COM interface object) Objective-C! :)