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Yes, but there's nothing to say that an interpreter couldn't use the type hinting. Imagine a pypy-hinting interpreter that analysed the code and kept the hintin

Yes, but there's nothing to say that an interpreter couldn't use the type hinting. Imagine a pypy-hinting interpreter that analysed the code and kept the hinting, it could theoretically JIT it better.

qopp 11y ago
Whether or not this would be helpful is discussed here: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#would-type-annotations-help-pypy-s-performance http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#would-type-annotation...
- DasIch 11y ago
  tl;dr type hints are useless because they're hints.