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by dwohnitmok 1603 days ago
> if some variable is only important at compile-time, the compiler doesn't have to look at it with very much scrutiny. That saves you a lot of time when typechecking

Right, but if some code is annotated with unrestricted multiplicity, but still not actually used anywhere in a function body, does this make compilation of that code slower than if that same code was annotated with zero multiplicity?