Dynamic languages can be compiled [Was: Prothon gets Major Facelift in Vers 0.1.0 [Prothon]]

[Michael Hudson]

Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> writes:

> 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.

OK, that looks wrong :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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