Re: python philosophical question - strong vs duck typing

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Date	Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:51:27 -0500
From	Evan Driscoll <edriscoll@wisc.edu>
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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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