Luke Palmer wrote:
But we always have enough knowledge to optimize the hell out of this,
and they're not not handwavy "we can probably" optimizations. They're
real, and they're pretty darn easy.
I fully agree. But I like to add that a single 'where' on general
types like Int, Str or even Any can seriously harm performance
because than the dispatcher has to check it always and everywhere!
So the Perl 6 type system let's you have your rope and tie yourself.
Well, that is late binding :)
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TSa (Thomas SandlaÃ)