A silly optimization: adding opt_respond_to to the Ruby VM, part 6

In part 5 , we finally got our new instruction defined and outputting as part of our bytecode. if you didn’t run it yourself, you just had to trust me that it really did run. But, I just dropped most of the implementation code in without explaining it. Let’s start off by walking through the basic version, then start planning for the true optimization. The progress so far Here’s our sample Ruby…