Not making any claims about Julia, but “gets compiled native via LLVM” doesn’t imply ”is about as fast as other natively compiled languages”
For example, a straightforward Python-to-LLVM compiler would generate code with every variable being a PyObject (https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/structures.html) instance, and “switch(obj.ob_type)” equivalents that would require a “sufficiently advanced compiler” to get to equivalent speed as, say, C.
For example, a straightforward Python-to-LLVM compiler would generate code with every variable being a PyObject (https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/structures.html) instance, and “switch(obj.ob_type)” equivalents that would require a “sufficiently advanced compiler” to get to equivalent speed as, say, C.