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		astrange on March 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C objc_msgSend does allocate memory - for the IMP caches, and the class initialization costs (and calling +initialize) the first time you message a class.

klodolph on March 21, 2023 [–]

Sure. It allocates zero heap memory per call, amortized.

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