As discussed earlier today, we have a new thesis statement, namely that the feature of Julia that users like is to have the semantics of dynamic dispatch but the speed allowed by static method resolution in a JIT compiler. In this sense the related work is much closer to optimizing implementations of dynamic languages such as PyPy, LuaJIT and V8, which use inline caching but not as aggressively as in Julia.
As discussed earlier today, we have a new thesis statement, namely that the feature of Julia that users like is to have the semantics of dynamic dispatch but the speed allowed by static method resolution in a JIT compiler. In this sense the related work is much closer to optimizing implementations of dynamic languages such as PyPy, LuaJIT and V8, which use inline caching but not as aggressively as in Julia.