neal@cs.rochester.edu (Neal Gafter) (04/18/89)
In "Object-Oriented Software Construction," (pg 344), Meyer says that
the Eiffel implementation achieves constant-time routine retrieval by
representing each class descriptor as an array and using a layout
scheme that allows compile-time computation of an index into that
array for each routine call.
Unfortunately, the book does not say how this is accomplished. Can
someone tell me?
Neal
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