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What all the beartype-based solutions have in common is settling for a linear isinstance scan, sacrificing a fast lookup. Maybe dispatch speed is not important to users, or maybe multimethod should continue to offer speed as a distinguishing feature. There are already 3 choices which trade-off speed and flexibility - multimethod, multidispatch, and overload - so there are plenty of options.
Which trade-off of features and speed is preferred?
`multimethod` - fastest cached dispatch, positional only arguments
50%
`multidispatch` - slightly slower to support keyword arguments, using the first function's signature
50%
`overload` - slowest linear dispatch, with support for predicates
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It seems like there is renewed interest in multiple dispatch, particularly with robust support for generics.
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beartype-based solutions have in common is settling for a linearisinstancescan, sacrificing a fast lookup. Maybe dispatch speed is not important to users, or maybemultimethodshould continue to offer speed as a distinguishing feature. There are already 3 choices which trade-off speed and flexibility -multimethod,multidispatch, andoverload- so there are plenty of options.2 votes ·
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