Why is dispatch so fast?

[Monte Goulding]

On 10/11/2013, at 5:20 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> For anyone here who's read enough of the source to have figured this out (which I guess means Monte and Mark Wieder):
> 
> Why is the dispatch command so much faster than do, send, or call?
> 
> Is there an option to optimize the others, or something unique about dispatch that allows it to be between 30% and 50% faster?

The main difference appears to be send needs to parse the params from the string. Do obviously needs to be parsed on the fly too.
> 
> 
> Bonus points:  Why is the Server standalone engine so much larger than the Linux standalone engine?

Server is statically linked to a bunch of libraries to improve portability.

> 
> Ah, the mysteries of the code base...

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