Efficient method dispatch in PCL

TL;DR: PICs provide a new way to reduce the overhead of polymorphic message sends by extending inline caches to include more than one cached lookup result per call site.

TL;DR: This paper introduces predicate dispatching, gives motivating examples, and presents its static and dynamic semantics.

TL;DR: Predicate dispatching as mentioned in this paper generalizes previous method dispatch mechanisms by permitting arbitrary predicates to control method applicability and by using logical implication between predicates as the overriding relationship, which can be regarded as syntactic sugar for predicate dispatching.

TL;DR: We show how multi-methods can be statically type checked and how information collected at the time of program compilation can be used to make the run-time dispatch of multi- methods more efficient.

TL;DR: The TI implementation of CLOS, TICLOS for the Explorer architecture, and some results of performance benchmarks are described.

TL;DR: Symbolics' newly redesigned object-oriented programming system, Flavors, encourages program modularity, eases the development of large, complex programs, and provides high efficiency at run time.

TL;DR: This specification presents adescription of the standard Programmer Interface for the Common Lisp Object System, a object-oriented extension to Common Lisp as defined in Common Lisp: The Language, and provides a facility for declaring new types of method combination.

TL;DR: This book is the first detailed account of the Smalltalk-80 system and is divided into four major parts: an overview of the concepts and syntax of the programming language, a specification of the system's functionality, and an example of the design and implementation of a moderate-size application.