Re: Timings for the new version of Closure

On 18 May 2004, at 14:53, John Wilson wrote:
> On 18 May 2004, at 14:43, Michael Campbell wrote:
>> John Wilson wrote:
>>> It's just occurred to me that I'm including the loop overhead in
>> the
>>> timings. I've measure the time to do an empty loop and it's 300
>>> milliseconds!
>>>
>>> So the numbers I posted originally have to be reduces by 300 (both
>>> versions)
>>
>>
>> Excellent.  When you say "... faster than calling a method ..." is
>> this because of the dynamic dispatch?
>>
>
> Yes,
>
> 	a closure is an optimisable special case. Although one of the tricks 
> I used to optimise zero, one and two parameter closure calls could 
> possibly be used on normal classes. I need to think a little more 
> about this...

Absolutely. I tried to optimise the zero-argument method calls a little 
while ago (can't remember how far I got but I think I did it). We could 
optimise method-calls-with-one-arg some (to avoid creating redundant 
Object[] { arg } objects though its a little harder.

James
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