Robert Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does this make Lisp "less dynamic" than Python? Espen would say it's not > less dynamic, but rather that a similar level of dynamism is achieved in > Common Lisp via well defined interfaces. The compiler knows the interfaces, > so it can do a better job optimizing the code.
I'd say Python is more dynamic in the sense that the Python runtime system has to actually concern itself about the dynamism all the time in practice, i.e. on every object method invocation. The Lisp runtime only has to think about it when the application calls specific functions in those interfaces. The rest of the time, it can use various optimizations like compile-time analysis and caching. I do not consider this contrast to be in Python's favor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
