Re: v8 first impressions

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:48 PM, David Griswold wrote:

> [...] suggest can't be distinguished from a truly megamorphic send.  Such a send
> would be slower for megamorphic sends [...]

By the way, I don't know who coined the word "megamorphic", but he was
clearly a barbarian (originally, someone who doesn't speak Greek).
"Monomorphic" and "polymorphic" are fine, but "megamorphic" would mean
having a big form, as in "You've grown rather megamorphic since you
left school."

Can we please switch to "perissomorphic"?  It's better Greek and onlly
a little bit longer.  We already have the rare words "perissology"
(too many words) and "perissosyllabic" (having too many syllables), as
well as the more common word "perissodactyl" (ungulates that have an
odd number of toes, such as horses, from a second sense of Greek
_perissos_, 'odd (in mathematics')'.

"Megamorphic": kill it before it spreads!

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