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This is a good article, but I must take issue with "Static typing allows you to generate the optimum bytecode/binary", simply because whilst you generally get f
by TheBoff 15y ago
This is a good article, but I must take issue with "Static typing allows you to generate the optimum bytecode/binary", simply because whilst you generally get faster binaries, you can't know that it's optimum.
Just a nitpick, though.
- bad_user 15y agoAnother nitpick -- static languages on top of the JVM are indeed able to generate faster binaries. But that's only because the JVM was optimized for Java. And the fastest language around, X86 (or MIPS) assembly, is completely dynamic and loose. I don't think it's a secret that commercial Smalltalk VMs kicked ass while executing one of the most dynamic languages in existence ... where performance was (and still is) comparable (even better in some tests) to the JVM or .NET