Compiling

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> This is a standard response to a rather frequent question here. But I
> am not sure I ever understood. Scheme / Lisp are about as dynamic as
> Python. Yet they have quite efficient native compilers. Ex: Bigloo
> Scheme.

If you provide the necessary annotations for optimization. Not sure about
runtime. But then that is what psyco does (albeit for a limited range of
machines) at runtime. And even in bigloo you end up with guarding
statements for typechecking & and an code-size explosion.

Diez