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Stan Shebs wrote:
>  if you use function dispatching to iterate, you blow your 
> optimization opportunities in code that is known to be time-critical.
>
Not having to kludge up indirect dispatch would be nice for a number of 
reasons, performance is not one of them.  It's like adding "inline" 
because we think that will fix a not spot.