Time and space efficient method-lookup for object-oriented programs

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn Part F129447, Issue , 1996, Pages 42-51

  Muthukrishnan, S ^a   Müller, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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