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by blt 4418 days ago
but for scientific computing with numbers - the author's target audience - dynamic typing is the main bottleneck.
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freyrs3 4418 days ago
Boxing and memory locality are the the main bottlenecks in scientific computations with Python, dynamic typing is orthogonal.
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andreasvc 4418 days ago
If a language is dynamically typed, it is very likely that it will use boxing, so they do not seem orthogonal to me.
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