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I thought making as many checks as possibly static instead of dynamic generally made things faster, maybe it's worded backwards?
by tbrownaw 15y ago
I thought making as many checks as possibly static instead of dynamic generally made things faster, maybe it's worded backwards?
- rwmj 15y agoStatic typing certainly makes things safer, which could be a good thing when talking about distributed systems with many communicating components.
- marshray 15y agoIt's also what makes it possible for you to write, say, a high-performance floating point matrix multiplication function and have the compiler emit code accepts floating point inputs without having to consider the possibility that the arguments were supplied as strings.