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		Lednakashim on June 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no... Don't we are about the ability of the compiler to optimize? Does anybody compile code nowadays?

aidenn0 on June 8, 2012 | [–]

Meh, dynamically typed systems are within an order of magnitude of statically typed systems, even on benchmarks that greatly benefit from the static type information.

10098 on June 8, 2012 | [–]

what do you mean? you cant get a working system without compiling some language to machine code at some point

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