Re: [Swarm-Support] objective-c vs. java

[Steve Railsback]

Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> As a practical matter, it's quite easy to write a Objective C program 
> for Swarm and a Java program and have the Java program be faster.  
> Dynamic method dispatch is often overused by people in central parts of 
> their simulations and the simulation ends up doing method dispatch a 
> high percentage of the time.  In one view, that's not a problem with 

Marcus,
Could you explain to us ignorant ones what you mean by "dynamic method 
dispatch"? Do you just mean using more method calls than necessary, or 
using code where the method to be called is a variable? Or something else?

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