linux-kernel - Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

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Message-ID: <47505907.5030409@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:40:07 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>
CC:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Ben Crowhurst <Ben.Crowhurst@...llatravel.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

Kyle Moffett wrote:
> With that said, there is a significant performance penalty as all 
> Objective-C method calls are looked up symbolically at runtime for every 
> single call.

GACK!

At least C++ has vtables.

	-hpa

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