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Python has types; I would even describe it as strongly-typed. It is thus relatively JIT-able (as pypy and psyco have shown). The chief problem is the high lev
by mikeklaas 12y ago
Python has types; I would even describe it as strongly-typed. It is thus relatively JIT-able (as pypy and psyco have shown).
The chief problem is the high level of dynamic typing going, plus the huge amount of globally-changable assumptions (you can add methods to any instance of a class, you can globally change the definition of language built-ins, etc.)
- agentultra 12y agoSome charity, please; I know Python is strongly-typed. It just doesn't take advantage of it and doesn't have facilities for producing fast code. Common Lisp not only provides type hinting facilities in the language it also provides hinting to the compiler to turn off all run-time type checks in critical code sections.