Re: When you send a message to an object, how does it find the corresponding method?
Re: When you send a message to an object, how does it find the corresponding method?
- Subject: Re: When you send a message to an object, how does it find the corresponding method?
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:16:51 +0200
On 05.08.2007, at 10:35, Bob Ueland wrote:
When you send a message to an object, how does it find the
corresponding method? I have a very vague and unclear picture of
what happens.
If you want all the gory details, I wrote about this on my blog:
<http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-runtime-time.htm>
That's not specific to any existing Objective C runtime, but it
explains the general mechanisms. Of course, what Apple actually does
uses a lot of optimizations and better algorithms than the text and
code linked to on that page.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de
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