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Re: Cocoa's custom class delegate conventions
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Re: Cocoa's custom class delegate conventions


  • Subject: Re: Cocoa's custom class delegate conventions
  • From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 05:31:36 -0400

on 03-06-14 4:24 AM, Sailor Quasar at email@hidden wrote:

> For that matter, once you've confirm that [delegate
> respondsToSelector:@selector(thingWillDoStuff:)], why in the world
> can't you simply then call [delegate thingWillDoStuff:self] directly?
> It's an id after all, and I believe one of the rules of ids is that you
> can send any selector to them that they recognize.

I suppose that performSelector is faster because it bypasses the Objective-C
runtime message resolution overhead.

I've been told that there is some other "magic" optimization done in Cocoa,
but I don't know what it is. Something about caching the selectors?

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