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Re:The Toit language is now open source by kasperl on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:41AM (#29304973)
Among other things, Toit uses the selector-based row displacement technique for building a compact method dispatch table that can be queried in constant time.

If you're into fast virtual method calls - also for dynamic languages - you might want to take a look at Karel Driesen's excellent PhD dissertation on the subject:

https://cs.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/documents/1999-24.ps

Re:The Toit language is now open source by kasperl on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:43AM (#29304986)
Oh, and full disclosure: I'm the author of the blog post.
Re:The Toit language is now open source by tomp on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:58AM (#29305085)
Re:The Toit language is now open source by floitsch on Monday November 22, 2021 @06:04AM (#29305116)