Bytecode question: the send instruction

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed May 14 10:35:28 UTC 2003


> This mean 3.6% of the method call are not cached? This sounds 
> strange as this value is very low, I was expected something about 10%

Years back in a discussion with Dan I measured the mcache hit rate and came
to the same results. 95++% of all sends were cached (which came as a big
surprise for me too).

Cheers,
  - Andreas




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