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Re: Can somebody explain this to me

From "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Can somebody explain this to me
Date 2015-01-08 13:16 +0100
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John Harris wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:01:05 +0100, "Christoph M. Becker"
> <cmbecker69@arcor.de> wrote:
> 
>> John Harris wrote:
>>
>>> It is obvious that you, Thomas, are not familiar with C++ V-tables.
>>> They do exactly the same job as an ECMAScript prototype chain but are
>>> far more efficient and cannot be altered by the user code, or even
>>> accessed. 
>>>
>>> V-tables are the obvious data structures to do the job but the
>>> Standard allows compilers to use any means they wish. A compiler could
>>> even use ECMAScript prototype chains, but wouldn't as it would be too
>>> slow and unnecessarily complicated.
>>
>> I consider it rather unlikely that an ECMAScript implementation uses
>> vtables for property lookup; more likely they might use hash tables
>> caches to avoid repeated traversal of the prototype chain.
>>
>> However, claiming or even assuming is somewhat inappropriate for a
>> technical newsgroup -- a proof would be preferable.
> 
> I'm afraid you've misread what I wrote. I said that a C++ compiler is
> permitted to use prototype chains if it wishes to (but it never will
> wish to).

Indeed, I've misread your post.  Thanks for the clarification.

> I did not say anything about ECMAScript implementations. Indeed,
> V-tables are fixed arrays that rely on variables having fixed names
> and on no change by the program so are very unsuitable.

ACK

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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  Re: Can somebody explain this to me Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-01-06 01:40 +0100
    Re: Can somebody explain this to me John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2015-01-06 16:01 +0000
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