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Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Languages With Polymorphic Inline Caches (Stanford) Published in ECOOP ‘91 proceedings, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 512, July, 1991
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This is basic background literature for dynamic language and polymorphic inline cache.
The basic idea:
1, collect type information by recording all of the receiver types actually used at a given call site.
2, The compiler can exploit this type information to generate better code when recompiling a method.
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Type prediction, analysis and split may work in some scenarios.

Nevertheless, there are classes of variables and expressions that type analysis cannot analyze well. One such class is the types of arguments to the method (our SELFsystem customizes on the type of the receiver, but not on the type of arguments).

Another important class is the types of instance variables and array elements (actually, any assignable heap cell).
These weaknesses of type analysis can be quite damaging to the overall performance of the system, espe-
cially for typical object-oriented programs

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