[self-interest] embedding based prototype languages

[James McCartney]

But those authors pack their tables in the paper I read. In fact I use 
exactly their selector based row displacement packing technique in my 
own vm.

On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 10:55  AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:

> Yes, what is called "Selector Table Indexing" (STI) in "Message 
> Dispatch
> on Pipelined Processor" by Karel Driesen, Urs Hölzle and Jan Vitek
> (ECOOP95 conference proceedings). Since the table is less than 5% full
> for a typical Smalltalk system, the authors considered STI a purely
> theoretical alternative to be use as a base for comparison with the
> practical ones.
>
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