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Re: Per-object inheritance in core a red herring?

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Nathan Torkington
Date:
June 29, 2001 06:54
Subject:
Re: Per-object inheritance in core a red herring?
Message ID:
15164.34919.867000.709351@gargle.gargle.HOWL
Dan Sugalski writes:
> Doing it properly in a module is significantly more of a pain than doing it 
> in the core. Faking it with a module means a fair amount of (reasonably 
> slow) perl code, doing it in the core requires a few extra lines of C code 
> in the method dispatch opcode function.

Wouldn't you do it by swapping out the dispatch entry in the vtable?

Nat
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