Compiling
Diez B. Roggisch
deets at nospam.web.de
Sun Feb 5 09:38:58 EST 2006
> 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
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