Tag
dynamic-dispatch
- Apr 23, 2026 Runtime Reflection: Metadata Layout and Dispatch Cost What a class descriptor actually contains, why reflective invocation cannot be inlined, and how annotation lookup and dynamic proxies turn a static call into a table walk. programming languages
- Dec 8, 2025 Inline Caches and Polymorphic Call Sites How a call site learns the shapes it has seen, what a megamorphic site costs, and why cache invalidation is the hard part of making dynamic dispatch fast. programming languages
- Jul 30, 2025 Prototype Chains and Delegation-Based Dispatch How property lookup walks a prototype chain, why methods are stored once per prototype instead of once per object, and where the chain design costs lookup time. programming languages