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I was talking to Ash Berlin last night at the london.pm* meeting and he mentioned an interesting article on one approach taken by the developers of JRuby to optimise its performance without compromising any part of Ruby's dynamic nature - avoiding hash lookups in hot paths: http://blog.headius.com/2012/09/avoiding-hash-lookups-in-ruby.html?m=1 One of the areas they were able to do this was method lookups. Their approach is described in useful detail. Previously Chip had mentioned privately that there might be scope for optimising method lookup in Perl 5. Specifically, work from the assumption that most of the time at most call sites $a->foo is going to have the same ref($a). This may not be *that* hard to implement, as a bunch of the evil work is already done - we have method caching and ISA caching, and the infrastructure to invalidate those caches. So does anyone want to see if they can have some fun speeding this up? Nicholas Clark * Don't worry. We were talking about Ruby. Not the four letter word that is off-topic for london.pm.Thread Next