Abstract:We describe a technique for generic dispatch that is adapted to modern computers where accessing memory is potentially quite expensive. Instead of the traditional hashing scheme used by PCL [6], we assign a unique number to each class, and the dispatch consists of comparisons of the number assigned to an instance with a certain number of (usually small) constant integers. While our implementation (SICL) is not yet in a state where we are able to get exact performance figures, a conservative simulation suggests… Show more
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