ABSTRACT
This chapter gives an introduction to optimization techniques appropriate for object-oriented languages. The topics covered include object and class layout, method invocation, efficient runtimetype checks, devirtualization with type analysis techniques and escape analyses. Object allocation and garbage collection techniques are also very important for the efficiency of object-oriented programming languages. However, because of their complexity and limited space, this important topic must unfortunately be omitted. A good reference is the book by Jones and Lins [16].
