[self-interest] embedding based prototype languages

[Steve Dekorte]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 12:26 PM, James McCartney wrote:
>  It would seem like you'd need to hash in that case, but obviously 
> you're not since you say 1
> clock. But I'm not even sure what that means since even an array lookup
> is not 1 clock.

A perfect hash would take care of that(I use them in Io) but it doesn't 
scale to large numbers of slots, which you'd get if you're flattening 
the inheritance tree.

Cheers,
Steve