Typing system vs. Java

[Terry Reedy]

"Michael Abbott" <michael at rcp.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Xns90EF9A33C3022michaelrcpcouk at 194.238.50.13...
>  Perhaps I'm old fasioned, and too concerned about  efficiency.

You are not the only one :-)  Practice worrying less.

>  I know that processor speeds have increased by a factor of
> 1,000 or so in the last couple of decades or so, but it gives me the
creeps
> to see just how much code is executed to implement such simple
expressions
> as 1+2 or f(x).

When I first realize that side effect of the neat concept
"Everything's a PyObject" I was shocked.  Fortunately, I was too well
hooked otherwise to turn back.  I still occasionally remind myself
that even at Python speeds, a billion additions are much cheaper than
a few decades ago.

Terry J. Reedy