[naasking]

> Although Grumpy is compiled, it is just as dynamic as Python, in that method dispatch involves dictionary lookups, etc.

Right, I suppose I assumed that straightforward numerical-looking code would be translated to Go numerical code. Perhaps they just aren't that ambitious yet.

[trotterdylan]

We hope to implement optimizations like you're describing eventually. But the core functionality needs a lot of work before we start down that path.