I'm not sure about "necessary" but for "useful", see for instance _Practical Soft Typing_, by Andrew Wright. Performance analysis for softly typed Scheme show that, on the benchmark, 20% to 50% of the time of the execution was spent performing run-time checks which may be automatically removed.
Cheers, David Quoting ToolmakerSteve98 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > was [Re: Any discussion of "compact" subset for mobile devices?] > > "Brendan Eich" wrote: >> Why do you believe static typing is necessary for performance? Just >> curious. > _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
