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Dynamic Dispatch
Introduction
Dynamic dispatch is an object-oriented programming concept that refers to the mapping of a method to an object's dynamic runtime type. It is common in many object-oriented languages. Languages such as Java and C++ use single dispatch, while only a few, such as CLOS, use multiple dispatch. Both types of dispatch will be discussed later.
Advantages
- Flexibility
- Extensibility
Disadvantages
- Lookup overhead
- Counter to safety and increased compile-time knowledge
- Obstacle to optimization
- Hinders compiler in determining exact type of objects
Single Dispatch
Multiple Dispatch
References
[1] S. Milton, H.W. Schmidt, “Dynamic Dispatch in Object-Oriented Languages”, 2004.
[2] M. Muller, “Message Dispatch in Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Languages”, Master’s Thesis, University of New Mexico, 1995.