Basic Option Information

• name: multimethods
• description: the multimethod implementation to use
• command-line: --objspace-std-multimethods
• option type: choice option
• possible values:
  • doubledispatch
  • mrd
• default: mrd

Description

Choose the multimethod implementation.

• doubledispatch turns a multimethod call into a sequence of normal method calls.
• mrd uses a technique known as Multiple Row Displacement which precomputes a few compact tables of numbers and function pointers.