Thispatcher and the SDK

Iain Duncan's icon

Hi devs, I'm thinking, but am not sure, that sending message to a thispatcher object is literally the same thing under the hood as sending messages to the patcher we would get from:

object_obex_lookup(x, gensym("#P"), &patcher);

Is that accurate? Can that object receive and handle messages just like a thispatcher does?
thanks!