On 1/3/2012 13:13, Sean Wolfe wrote: > What I am driving at is, if we are coding in python but looking for > more performance, what if we had an option to 1) restrict ourselves > somewhat by using strong typing to 2) make it easy to compile or > convert down to C++ and thereby gain more performance. I'm not sure it helps with compiling to C or C++ (that is neither necessary nor sufficient for being a high performance language), but it has the potential for helping quite a lot with performance. If you read stuff written by evangelical Common Lisp folks, they tout CL's optional type annotations as providing a mechanism for getting near-C-like performance. I haven't tested that myself though.
Evan
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