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nice comment! how does enforcing type system help improve the performance? is there any article that sheds more light? also, did you mean static typing instead

• khedoros1 9y ago
  Static typing means that typechecking can be done at compile-time, and optimizations can be applied then. Dynamic typing generally means that some runtime layer needs to do typechecking during execution. So, as a rule of thumb, it's usually assumed that a statically-typed language will be faster than a dynamically-typed one.
  • flavio81 9y ago
    ... unless the dynamically typed language also allows type declarations, intended mainly for enhancing speed.
    • khedoros1 9y ago
      "Dynamic" or "static" isn't a binary value. A dynamic language that allows some static typing is less dynamic than a language that doesn't allow that.