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ICFP
1999
ACM
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1999
ACM
Type dispatch constructs are an important feature of many programming languages. Scheme has predicates for testing the runtime type of a value. Java has a class cast expression an...
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ICFP
1999
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
1999
ACM
Run-time type dispatch enables a variety of advanced optimization techniques for polymorphic languages, including tag-free garbage collection, unboxed function arguments, and fla...