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I know performance is not an explicit goal of Mypy, but I’ve been curious whether or not this project could lead to something much faster in the future (compile

• nimmer 7y ago
  "compiled Mypy with Nim-like speed" is Nim, essentially.
• dfee 7y ago
  The types are ignored at runtime; they’re annotations. I guess they could still theoretically have some impact, but it should be negligible. Compiled mypy is a stated potential goal - but outside the scope of this project itself. Read more here: https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#will-static-typing-make-my-programs-run-faster https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#will-static-t...
• hsaliak 7y ago
  There’s an experimental mypyc that can compile typed code to extensions, it’s not complete but it is used in mypy itself if I understand correctly. More practically, I’ve found that it’s much easier to translate well typed code to cython. It still requires work, and ymmv.
• anentropic 7y ago
  eventually there may be... https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc
• hiccuphippo 7y ago
  I think cython is already using type annotations to compile python code.