Extension methods

[Neal Gafter]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Rémi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr> wrote:

> There is a real problem of performance with extension methods
> (at least with Hotspot).
> Extension methods create megamorphic call sites
> and Hotspot is not able to inline them.
>

Extension methods are most simply formulated are static methods (as in C#),
and are therefore not polymorphic at runtime at all.  They can even be
inlined trivially.  Such a formulation enables existing methods (such as
those in Collections and Arrays) to be retrofitted as extension methods as
well.

Perhaps you have another technique in mind for extension methods?