Re: Object getter method optimization

Hi Lin, Lin Yo-An wrote:

Since the original approach doesn't work, here comes another new idea: When executing method call on an object, if we found the method body are just 2 op codes (FETCH_OBJ_R and RETURN), we then denote the method is a "getter method" And the next time, when we execute the same method, we found the "getter method" flag, we simply execute FETCH_OBJ_R on that object and return the value to avoid extra op code execution time. Do you think if this could work?

For a while I'd also been wondering if we could implement some implementation along these lines. Another approach could be possibly replacing such methods with an C implementation (though I don't know if non-internal classes can have internal methods). I don't know how successful it will be, but I'm interested to hear how much improvement it gives if you get it working. Thanks! -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/