Disable GC entirely

[Walter Bright]

On 4/10/2013 4:00 AM, Manu wrote:
> It doesn't have all sources. It could load a library. That can never be guaranteed.

Currently, a virtual call is done with:

    (*vtbl[i])(args...)

It makes me wonder if the following would be faster:

    method_fp = vtbl[i];
    if (method_fp == &method)
        method(args...)
    else
        (*method_fp)(args...)

Anyone care to dummy this up and run a benchmark?

It's also possible to, for the per-class static data, have a flag that says 
"isfinal", which is set to false at runtime whenever a new is done for a derived 
class. Then, the method test above becomes:

     if (isfinal)