[PRL] Bob Harper's new blog

[Matthias Felleisen]

On Mar 17, 2011, at 2:12 PM, William D Clinger wrote:

>>  That's from academic
>> compiler guys who parallelize for a living. Perhaps the
>> problem is 'academic' in that sentence.
> 
> I think you're reporting a garbled message.  If parallelism
> is the issue, then the cost of dynamic method dispatch is
> pretty far down in the noise. 


Wait. You channeled Bob's argument about dynamic dispatch and killing parallelism into this discussion. All I can do is respond with "I can't imagine this is true" and it looks like we have wasted a whole lot of bandwidth to violently agree here.