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by ksherlock 1415 days ago
Also, 30 years ago, on NeXT hardware.
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Memory latency hasn't improved that much since Next and these kind of virtual-like things cause lots of dependent reads.
Objc_msgsend on the other hand, has been optimized continuously.

https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/objc_msgsends-new-prototype.h...