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What is Method Dispatch?

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What is Method Dispatch?

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It’s hard to say without a context, but I’d describe it as the process which takes a method invocation in source code, decides which method requires executing, and executes it, performing any argument conversions, defaulting etc as required by the language. The decision part of method dispatch may be purely at execution time (e.g. in a dynamic language), purely at compile time (e.g. calling a static method in C#/Java), or both (calling a virtual method in C#/Java). Different languages can have significantly different approaches to method dispatch.

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