[Gambas-user] Performance figures for various ways to do reflective method calls

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 17/10/2023 à 20:07, Martin Fischer a écrit :
> Hi Brian,
> 
> I got the same results using my original tests with "fast" and "fast
> unsafe".
> I was quite surprised to see that mostly it's not getting faster with
> "fast".
> 
> This raises the question: under which circumstances is "fast" faster?
> Benoit, can you answer this?
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 

Have you read the wiki page about JIT compiler?

In a few words, a lot of things are optimized, and the others just call 
the interpreter indirectly. So no gain for string management, and 
function calls can be slower - it is only optimized when you call a 
class private function.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini.