Re: [sc-dev] [supercollider/supercollider] bf8c91: class library: bitTest method minor speed improvem...

[Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would it be possible to create real method "aliases", that would just
forward to another method without actually parsing and re-passing the
args?

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Julian Rohrhuber
<julian.rohrhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 04.11.2013, at 11:54, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Fredrik Olofsson <f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> << is like an alias and by replacing them we get one method call less.
>>> {100000.do{100<<4}}.bench
>>> {100000.do{100.leftShift(4)}}.bench
>>
>> I see! Interesting that one message dispatch takes so much of the time.
>
> unary dispatch is very efficient, it is the argument passing mechanism that takes time. This is because SC has a very rich but complex argument passing semantics (keyword arguments etc.).
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