- Polymorphic Inline Cache
Polymorphic Inline Cache is when you
cache more than one object->method lookup pair per location in the code.Ex from the Ruby language:If you call this with different a parameters then the VM would 'remember' which one goes with which and cache and reuse those.
References
* http://research.sun.com/self/papers/pics.html
* http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/55723
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