What's the best way to minimize the need of run time checks?

[Michael Torrie]

On 08/14/2016 04:45 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 4:31:44 AM UTC+12, BartC wrote:
> 
>> But it can't create a new record or struct type at runtime which can 
>> then be accessed using normal syntax, in compiled code that already 
>> existed before the record was created.
> 
> That’s an awful lot of “which ... that” qualification going on.
> 
> Remember, Python, which is supposed to be able to do all that, is implemented in C.

Though PyPy proves that Python can bootstrap itself, and do that fairly
efficiently.