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[Jacek Generowicz]

Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> writes:

> Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> writes:
> 
> > Could we now just all agree, once and for all, that compiling
> > dynamic languages to native binary really can give significant
> > speedups?
> 
> Has anyone really been arguing that?

Ryan Paul <segphault at sbcglobal.net> writes in this very thread:

> I dont understand why everybody seems to want a machinecode compiler. It
> wont make a high-level, dynamically typed language run any faster.

I guess there are different ways of interpreting the plethora of
contributions such as the above. Maybe my I'm misunderstanding them.