the “(super) efficient” is not there yet. Io is still dynamic dispatch with multiple layers of indirection. afaik it’s slower than before.

the upcoming releases are expected to provide a solution to this “dispatch is comptime-known, but still dynamic” problem, and drop the loses in efficiency.

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bbkane an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Hmm in the 2025 talk ( https://youtu.be/f30PceqQWko?si=qZESxMaSyt7fYMfz ), Andrew emphasizes that this approach is more efficient than before- even showing compiled assembly iirc. I guess that was a one-off?

	▲	chaz72 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		My guess is that one of these (Andrew) is measuring syscalls and the other is measuring vtable indirections.

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rsyring an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The parent seems to be talking about efficient code style, not necessarily performance implementation, as they go on to discuss how it looks.

That is, I think the point was DevX not io performance.